A major Bitcoin technology company recently purchased a large wind farm in Texas and will subsequently take it off the power grid and use it to energize its mining operations. MARA Holdings Inc., headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., announced on Dec. 3 that it bought a 114-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Hansford County—about 95 miles north of Amarillo—from a joint venture of National Grid Plc and the Washington State Investment Board, according to a filing with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as first reported by Bloomberg. The sale expected to close in the first quarter of 2025. According to MARA, the ... (full story)