6. LEASES

Lease as Lessee

During the period from October 19, 2023 to December 31, 2023, Bit Digital entered into a capacity lease agreement for its cloud services designed to support generative AI workstreams. The initial lease term is three years, with automatic renewals for successive 12-month periods. The lease expense incurred in December 2023 is capitalized as deferred cost since it is directly related to fulfilling its cloud services which commenced operations in January 2024. The capitalized lease payment was expensed in January 2024.

On August 1, 2024, the Company entered into an additional capacity lease agreement for its cloud services. The initial lease term is three years with automatic renewals for successive 12-month periods. 

On October 11, 2024, the Company acquired 100% of Enovum Data Centers Corp, including a data center lease agreement in Montreal for its data center services. The remaining lease term on the date of acquisition was 12 years with two five-year renewal options.

On February 11, 2025, the Company entered into an additional office lease agreement for its headquarters office in New York. The initial lease term is 27 months with automatic renewals on a month-to-month basis.

On March 1, 2025, the Company entered into an additional capacity lease agreement for its cloud services. The initial lease term is three years with automatic renewals for successive 12-month periods.

On April 11, 2025, the Company entered into a data center lease agreement in Saint-Jérôme for its data center colocation services (which we refer to as the “MTL-3”). The initial lease term is for 20 years with two five-year extension options. The transaction also includes a fixed-price purchase option exercisable until December 31, 2025. In December 2025, the Company became reasonably certain to exercise the purchase option and remeasured the lease as a finance lease as of December 1, 2025. As a result of the remeasurement of the lease liability, there was a reduction of approximately $23.5 million to the lease right-of-use assets and lease liabilities. On December 31, 2025, the Company notified the lessor of its intent to exercise the purchase option. The Company has 90 days to complete the purchase, after which the purchase option will expire. The option was exercised on January 14, 2026 and the purchase of MTL-3 is expected to close during the second quarter of 2026.

As of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, right-of-use asset and lease liabilities consisted of the following:

Operating right-of-use assets are recorded net of accumulated amortization of $7.5 million and $2.8 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Finance lease right-of-use asset is recorded net of accumulated amortization of $53,744 and $nil as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company’s amortization on the operating lease right-of-use assets totaled $4.6 million and $2.8 million, respectively.

For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company’s interest expense and amortization on the finance lease were $55,220 and $53,744, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company’s interest expense and amortization on the finance lease were $nil.

The following table presents the components of the Company’s lease expense. GPU lease expenses and data center lease expenses related to operational data centers are included in cost of revenue; data center lease expenses incurred during construction and office lease expenses are included in general and administrative expenses:

Additional information regarding the Company’s leasing activities as a lessee is as follows:

The following table represents our future minimum operating lease payments as of December 31, 2025:

The following table represents our future minimum finance lease payments as of December 31, 2025:

The Company entered into a GPU server lease agreement effective January 2024 for its cloud services designed to support generative AI workstreams. The lease payment depends on the usage of the GPU servers and the Company concludes that the lease payments are variable and will be recognized when they are incurred. For the years ended December, 2025 and 2024, the GPU server lease expense amounted to $21.7 million and $17.1 million, respectively.

Lease as Lessor

During the quarter ended March 31, 2024, the Company entered into a sales-type lease agreement as a lessor for its data storage equipment. The term of the lease is scheduled to expire in December 2026.

During the quarter ended September 30, 2024, the Company entered into a sales-type lease agreement as a lessor for its data storage equipment. The term of the lease is scheduled to expire in December 2026.

During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, the Company entered into two sales-type lease agreements as a lessor for its cloud service equipment. The term of the lease is scheduled to expire in October 2029 and November 2029, respectively.

During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, the Company entered into an operating sublease agreement to partially lease out its leased data center to a third party. The term of the sublease is scheduled to expire on October 30, 2026 and includes two automatic renewal periods of three years each, unless subtenant provides at least 90 days’ notice of non-renewal prior to the end of the then-current term.

During the quarter ended June 30, 2025, the Company entered into two sales-type lease agreements as a lessor for its cloud service equipment. The term of the lease is scheduled to expire in April 2030 and May 2030, respectively.

During the quarter ended September 30, 2025, the Company entered into one sales-type lease agreement as a lessor for its cloud service equipment. The term of the lease is scheduled to expire in June 2030.

During the quarter ended December 31, 2025, the Company did not enter into any sales-type lease agreements.

The components of lease income for the sales-type lease were as follows:

Interest income is included in the consolidated statements of operations under the caption “Revenue - Other.”

The components of net investment in sales-type leases were as follows:

The following table illustrates the Company’s future minimum receipts for sales-type lease as of December 31, 2025:

The present value of minimum sales-type receipts of $13.9 million is included in the consolidated balance sheets under the caption “Net investment in lease.”

The following table illustrates the future lease payments to be received from the Company’s sublease tenant as of December 31, 2025 were as follows: