Starwood Digital Ventures AI/HPC infrastructure joint venture
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
MARA announced a strategic joint venture with Starwood Digital Ventures to develop, finance and operate next-generation digital infrastructure. The joint platform is expected to support more than 1 gigawatt of IT capacity in the initial development phase, with a development roadmap that could extend capacity beyond 2.5 GW over time. MARA will have the option to invest up to 50 percent in joint venture projects.
Source (primary)
marathon-digital 8-K exhibit (q425shareholderletter.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “This quarter, we are accelerating MARA's expansion into AI and high-performance compute with the announcement of our strategic joint venture with Starwood Digital Ventures... The joint platform is expected to support more than 1 gigawatt ("GW") of IT capacity in the initial development phase, with a development roadmap that could extend capacity beyond 2.5 GW over time... MARA will have the option to invest up to 50 percent in joint venture projects”
How we checked this
Checked on September 21, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The shareholder letter states each element of the Starwood joint venture exactly as claimed.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA announced a strategic joint venture with Starwood Digital Ventures to develop, finance and operate next-generation digital infrastructure
- The joint platform is expected to support more than 1 GW of IT capacity in the initial development phase
- The development roadmap could extend capacity beyond 2.5 GW over time
- MARA will have the option to invest up to 50 percent in joint venture projects
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1507605/000150760526000004/q425shareholderletter.htm) in full (37,583 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms marathon-digital 8-K exhibit (q425shareholderletter.htm)
Quote: “This quarter, we are accelerating MARA's expansion into AI and high-performance compute with the announcement of our strategic joint venture with Starwood Digital Ventures... The joint platform is expected to support more than 1 gigawatt ("GW") of IT capacity in the initial development phase, with a development roadmap that could extend capacity beyond 2.5 GW over time... MARA will have the option to invest up to 50 percent in joint venture projects”