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Property and equipment:
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Property and equipment:  
Property and equipment:

2.  Property and equipment:

Depreciation and amortization expense related to property and equipment and finance leases and capitalized compensation costs of employees directly involved with construction activities were as follows:

    

Three Months

    

Three Months

    

Six Months

    

Six Months

Ended

Ended

Ended

Ended

(in thousands)

June 30, 2025

June 30, 2024

June 30, 2025

June 30, 2024

Depreciation and amortization expense

$

74,846

$

74,065

$

150,439

$

144,907

Capitalized compensation cost

 

11,201

11,232

22,445

22,929

IRU Finance Lease Termination – Discount and Gain on Lease Termination

In June 2024, the Company elected to exercise a contractual option to prepay in full at a 12.0% discounted rate an IRU finance lease agreement (the “IRU Lease”) acquired in the Transaction for $114.6 million. At the payment date, the present value of the IRU finance lease liability was $117.9 million and the remaining 31 monthly principal payments of $4.2 million each totaled $130.2 million. The prepayment resulted in a gain on lease termination of $3.3 million related to the difference between the book value of $117.9 million and the cash payment of $114.6 million. The Company is continuing to use the related IRU asset.