MARA stock jumps 14% on 2 GW Texas AI-bitcoin mining campus
The up to $600M in milestone payments via Starwood shows MARA willing to fund expansion in stock rather than cash, a signal of how thinly priced HPC power has become for public miners.
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The up to $600M in milestone payments via Starwood shows MARA willing to fund expansion in stock rather than cash, a signal of how thinly priced HPC power has become for public miners.
MARA appears to have bought 1,000 BTC (~$66.7M) via FalconX, a sharp reversal from Q1 2026, when the miner sold 20,880…
OGE disclosures also show large trades in Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Oracle and Apple — but the crypto-equity sleeve (MARA, COIN, MSTR, HOOD) is what moves markets today.
The sale tests whether MARA is monetising BTC to fund an AI-data-center build-out or simply trimming treasury exposure — Fred Thiel's Bloomberg appearance did little to settle the read.
The treasury drawdown sent MARA from second to fourth among public bitcoin holders — a structural reordering, not a quarter-end liquidity shuffle, with 90% of non-hosted power earmarked for AI…
The revenue print is the headline, but the $1.5B in bitcoin sold to retire debt and the halt to large-scale ASIC buys show where management is placing its bets this cycle.
The $2.34-a-share loss is a function of a 25% BTC drawdown; the $1.5B Long Ridge deal, the $1B note buyback, and the Starwood gigawatt pipeline are what investors are actually underwriting.