Starwood partnership for data center development
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
MARA partnered with Starwood to reduce construction risk and leverage expertise in hyperscale data-center development
Source (primary)
MARA Sees Bitcoin Mining Assets as a Fast Track to AI Data Center Growth - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Thiel said MARA partnered with Starwood because the company wanted to reduce construction risk and leverage expertise in hyperscale data-center development”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports CEO Fred Thiel saying MARA partnered with Starwood to reduce construction risk and use its hyperscale data-center development expertise.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA partnered with Starwood
- MARA's reason for the partnership was to reduce construction risk
- MARA's reason for the partnership was to use Starwood's expertise in hyperscale data-center development
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mara-sees-bitcoin-mining-assets-010204297.html) in full (15,957 characters, retrieved September 18, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms MARA Sees Bitcoin Mining Assets as a Fast Track to AI Data Center Growth - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “Thiel said MARA partnered with Starwood because the company wanted to reduce construction risk and leverage expertise in hyperscale data-center development”