Two AI/HPC data center leases signed by year-end 2026
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
CEO Fred Thiel reaffirmed MARA's target of signing two AI leases by year-end 2026, saying the company feels very confident.
Source (primary)
MARA’s CEO Expects Two AI Leases by Year-End. Here’s What the Stock Needs to Show Before December 31 - TIKR.com (-, news_article)
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Quote: “we feel very confident about signing the 2 leases by year-end”
How we checked this
Checked on October 14, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports that Thiel reaffirmed the two-lease year-end target at the September 14 H.C. Wainwright conference and quotes him saying the company feels very confident.
Confirmed in the source:
- CEO Fred Thiel reaffirmed MARA's target of signing two AI leases by year-end
- The year-end in question is 2026 (the article is dated October 2026 and calls December 31 the lease deadline)
- Thiel said the company feels very confident about signing the two leases
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.tikr.com/blog/maras-ceo-expects-two-ai-leases-by-year-end-heres-what-the-stock-needs-to-show-before-december-31) in full (10,023 characters, retrieved October 10, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms MARA’s CEO Expects Two AI Leases by Year-End. Here’s What the Stock Needs to Show Before December 31 - TIKR.com
Quote: “we feel very confident about signing the 2 leases by year-end”