Planned acquisition of powered Texas site for mining and AI
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
In July 2026, MARA announced plans to acquire a powered site in Texas that would support both Bitcoin mining and AI computing.
Source (primary)
MARA Moves 996 BTC Worth $81M to Galaxy Digital: Is the Bitcoin Miner Selling Again? - The Crypto Times (-, news_article)
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Quote: “In July, the company announced plans to acquire a powered site in Texas that would support both Bitcoin mining and AI computing.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 14, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports the July announcement of the Texas site plan. The 2026 year is not written out, but it is clearly implied by the article's October 2026 publication date and surrounding context.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA announced plans in July to acquire a powered site in Texas
- The site would support both Bitcoin mining and AI computing
- The July announcement falls in 2026, given the article's October 2026 date and its context of developments this year
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/10/09/mara-moves-996-btc-worth-81m-to-galaxy-digital-is-the-bitcoin-miner-selling-again/) in full (8,169 characters, retrieved October 10, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms MARA Moves 996 BTC Worth $81M to Galaxy Digital: Is the Bitcoin Miner Selling Again? - The Crypto Times
Quote: “In July, the company announced plans to acquire a powered site in Texas that would support both Bitcoin mining and AI computing.”