RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2025

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

In April 2021, the Company entered into an Administrative and Infrastructure Services Agreement (the “Services Agreement”) with Beowulf Electricity and Data LLC, formerly Beowulf Electricity & Data Inc., (“Beowulf E&D”), a related party due to control by a member of Company management. Under the Services Agreement, Beowulf E&D will provide, or cause its affiliates to provide, to TeraWulf certain services necessary to construct and operate certain bitcoin mining facilities developed or anticipated to be developed by the Company and support the Company’s ongoing business, including, among others, services related to construction, technical and engineering, operations and maintenance, procurement, information technology, finance and accounting, human resources, legal, risk management and external affairs consultation. The Services Agreement has an initial term of five years and provides for certain fixed, passthrough and incentive payments to Beowulf E&D, including issuing to certain designated employees of Beowulf E&D awards with respect to shares of Common Stock upon the consummation of an initial public offering of TeraWulf or the consummation of a merger following which TeraWulf is listed on a nationally recognized securities exchange and, thereafter, upon achievement of certain milestones regarding bitcoin mining capacity deployed at the bitcoin mining facilities.

For the base fee, the Company originally agreed to pay Beowulf E&D in monthly installments an annual fee for the first year in the amount of $7.0 million and, thereafter, an annual fee equal to the greater of $10.0 million or $0.0037 per kilowatt hour of electric load utilized by the bitcoin mining facilities. In March 2023, TeraWulf and Beowulf E&D entered into an Amendment No. 1 to the Services Agreement, pursuant to which TeraWulf agreed to pay Beowulf E&D, effective as of January 1, 2023, a reduced annual base fee equal to $8.5 million payable in monthly installments, until all obligations under the Company’s LGSA, as amended and restated from time to time, are either indefeasibly repaid in full or refinanced, at which point the annual base fee will increase to $10.0 million which occurred in July 2024. The Services Agreement also provides for reimbursement of cost and expenses incurred in connection with providing the services. For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company paid Beowulf E&D $5.7 million and $3.4 million, respectively, under the Services Agreement, including payments related to construction agreements with contractors at the Lake Mariner Facility which were passed through at cost. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, selling, general and administrative expenses – related party in the condensed consolidated statement of operations included $3.6 million and operating expenses – related party in the condensed consolidated statement of operations included $0.8 million, in each case related to the base fee and reimbursement of costs and expenses. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, selling, general and administrative expenses – related party in the condensed consolidated statement of operations included $2.6 million and operating expenses – related party in the condensed consolidated statement of operations included $0.6 million, in each case related to the base fee and reimbursement of costs and expenses. As of March 31, 2025, $0.9 million is included in prepaid expenses, $0.5 million is included in other amounts due to related parties and, of the costs incurred under the Services Agreement during the three months ended March 31, 2025, $0.4 million is included in property, plant and equipment, net in the condensed consolidated balance sheet. As of December 31, 2024, $0.8 million is included in prepaid expenses, $1.4 million is included in amounts due to related parties and, of the costs incurred under the Services Agreement during the three months ended March 31, 2024, $0.2 million is included in property, plant and equipment, net in the condensed consolidated balance sheet.

The Services Agreement also provides for performance-related milestones and related incentive compensation pursuant to which, once the mining facilities have utilized 100 MW of cryptocurrency mining load in the aggregate and for every incremental 100 MW of cryptocurrency mining load deployed thereafter, the Company agreed to issue awards of shares of Common Stock each in the amount of $2.5 million to certain designated employees of Beowulf E&D in accordance with TeraWulf’s then effective Plan. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company issued 1,083,189 shares of Common Stock with a fair value of $2.5 million to settle the share-based liabilities due to related party. The Company recorded no performance milestone expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.