Bitfarms Completes Strategic Sale of its Yguazu, Paraguay Data Center
18 Mars 2025 - 12:00PM
Bitfarms Ltd. (NASDAQ/TSX: BITF), a global Bitcoin and vertically
integrated data center company, today announced the successful
completion of the sale of its 200 MW data center in Yguazu,
Paraguay to HIVE Digital Technologies, Ltd. (“HIVE”).
Bitfarms CEO Ben Gagnon stated, “We are pleased
to have expeditiously completed the sale of our Yguazu site to
HIVE, allowing us to streamline our operations and further
rebalance our portfolio towards North America. We now anticipate
that our year-end 2025 proforma energy portfolio will be ~80% North
American and ~20% international, marking a significant milestone in
our transition from an international Bitcoin miner to a North
American energy and compute infrastructure company.”
CFO Jeff Lucas stated, “This accretive sale is
expected to significantly reduce our 2025 capex requirements, while
reducing our average power costs by 10%. We plan to reinvest the
savings and capital from this sale towards our 1.1 GW U.S. growth
pipeline for Bitcoin mining and HPC/AI infrastructure, in line with
our strategy to grow in the U.S. and diversify beyond Bitcoin
mining.”
About Bitfarms Ltd.
Founded in 2017, Bitfarms is a global Bitcoin
and vertically integrated data center company that sells its
computational power to one or more mining pools from which it
receives payment in Bitcoin. Bitfarms develops, owns, and operates
vertically integrated mining facilities with in-house management
and company-owned electrical engineering, installation service, and
multiple onsite technical repair centers.
Bitfarms currently has 15 operating Bitcoin data
centers in four countries: the United States, Canada, Paraguay, and
Argentina. Powered predominantly by environmentally friendly
hydro-electric and long-term power contracts, Bitfarms is committed
to using sustainable and often underutilized energy
infrastructure.
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Glossary of Terms
- HPC/AI = High Performance Computing / Artificial
Intelligence
- GW = Gigawatt
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release and are covered by safe harbors under Canadian and United
States securities laws. The statements and information in this
release regarding the sale of the Yguazu, Paraguay Site, the merits
of the rebalancing operations to North America, the reinvestment of
the proceeds of the sale for growth and projected growth, the North
American energy and compute infrastructure strategy and other
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Company are forward-looking information. Any statements that
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assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time
they were made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance,
or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any
future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by
such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among
others, risks relating to: the failure to receive payments owing
pursuant to the sale of the Yguazu, Paraguay Site on the terms as
announced or at all; the reinvestment of the proceeds of the sale
may not occur on an economic basis; the anticipated benefits of the
rebalancing of operations to North America and the North American
energy and compute infrastructure strategy may not be realized; an
inability to apply the Company’s data centers to HPC/AI
opportunities on a profitable basis; a failure to secure long-term
contracts associated with HPC/AI customers on terms which are
economic or at all; the construction and operation of the Company’s
facilities may not occur as currently planned, or at all; expansion
may not materialize as currently anticipated, or at all; the
digital currency market; the ability to successfully mine digital
currency; revenue may not increase as currently anticipated, or at
all; it may not be possible to profitably liquidate the current
digital currency inventory, or at all; a decline in digital
currency prices may have a significant negative impact on
operations; an increase in network difficulty may have a
significant negative impact on operations; the volatility of
digital currency prices; the anticipated growth and sustainability
of hydroelectricity for the purposes of cryptocurrency mining in
the applicable jurisdictions; the inability to maintain reliable
and economical sources of power for the Company to operate
cryptocurrency mining assets; the risks of an increase in the
Company’s electricity costs, cost of natural gas, changes in
currency exchange rates, energy curtailment or regulatory changes
in the energy regimes in the jurisdictions in which the Company
operates and the adverse impact on the Company’s profitability;
future capital needs and the ability to complete current and future
financings, including Bitfarms’ ability to utilize an at-the-market
offering program ( “ATM Program”) and the prices at which
securities may be sold in such ATM Program, as well as capital
market conditions in general; share dilution resulting from an ATM
Program and from other equity issuances; the risk that a material
weakness in internal control over financial reporting could result
in a misstatement of the Company’s financial position that may lead
to a material misstatement of the annual or interim consolidated
financial statements if not prevented or detected on a timely
basis; any regulations or laws that will prevent Bitfarms from
operating its business; historical prices of digital currencies and
the ability to mine digital currencies that will be consistent with
historical prices; and the adoption or expansion of any regulation
or law that will prevent Bitfarms from operating its business, or
make it more costly to do so. For further information concerning
these and other risks and uncertainties, refer to the Company’s
filings on www.sedarplus.ca (which are also available on the
website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at
www.sec.gov), including the restated MD&A for the year-ended
December 31, 2023, filed on December 9, 2024. Although the Company
has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed in
forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause
results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, including
factors that are currently unknown to or deemed immaterial by the
Company. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove
to be accurate as actual results, and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly,
readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking
information. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or
update any forward-looking information other than as required by
law. Trading in the securities of the Company should be considered
highly speculative. No stock exchange, securities commission or
other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the
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Nasdaq, or any other securities exchange or regulatory authority
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
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Investor Relations
Contacts:
Tracy KrummeSVP, Head of IR & Corp. Comms.+1
786-671-5638tkrumme@bitfarms.com
Media Contacts:
Caroline Brady BakerDirector,
Communicationscbaker@bitfarms.com
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