Northern Data AG
Northern Data: Existing bitcoin mining customer expands contract volume by more than 200 MW
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PRESS RELEASE – The rise of Bitcoin catapults customer demand to new heights – Northern Data participates in the positive bitcoin price development through performance-based component of customer fees – Accelerated expansion of up to five new data center locations
In addition to the expanded order volume, Northern Data also benefits from a performance-based remuneration component with this customer on top of the basic fee, meaning that Northern Data participates in the positive development of the bitcoin price. This additional revenue driver is not included in the Company’s forecast for 2021 and therefore represents additional significant upside potential. As recently as mid-December, the Company forecast revenues of EUR 350 million to EUR 400 million with EBITDA of EUR 100 million to EUR 125 million for the 2021 financial year, which has just begun. The need for bitcoin mining infrastructure is growing rapidly, especially due to the fast-developing acceptance of bitcoin as a new asset class. With around eight years of experience in the field of infrastructure for HPC applications such as bitcoin mining, Northern Data’s offering is built upon many proprietary technologies. These include an innovative air-cooling system developed in-house, as well as artificial intelligence for controlling and optimizing the operation of the HPC hardware. These solutions enable Northern Data to deliver capacity to customers in record time. CEO Aroosh Thillainathan comments, “The upsizing of this customer order is a great testament to our technology-leading solutions for bitcoin mining infrastructure. With this customer, we will directly participate in the rising bitcoin price and thus have an additional upside that we had not previously factored into our forecast for 2021. But bitcoin mining is only one of the many growth drivers in our business: In addition to the accelerated expansion of our bitcoin mining activities, we are also benefiting from rapidly developing customer demand in other application areas of high-performance computing. Just in early December, we started commissioning our GPU cluster, which will allow us to benefit from the exploding demand for HPC services for artificial intelligence, deep learning, research and rendering.” Press contact Investor Relations
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Language: | English |
Company: | Northern Data AG |
Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6 | |
60313 Frankfurt/Main | |
Germany | |
Phone: | +49 69 34 87 52 25 |
E-mail: | info@northerndata.de |
Internet: | www.northerndata.de |
ISIN: | DE000A0SMU87 |
WKN: | A0SMU8 |
Listed: | Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich (m:access), Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange |
EQS News ID: | 1158100 |
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