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- References

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The number of initial megawatts of power deployment.

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Maximum number of potential additional expansion of Megawatts of powers.

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Number of megawatts in total developed capacity for Bitcoin mining and data center hosting services for institutional-scale hosted clients

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Number of Megawatts operational capacity under the bitcoin miner

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Represents the number of sites.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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