RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Letters of Credit

Atlas obtained a letter of credit from a financial institution in the amount of $5.0 million at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, payable to the NYSDEC. This letter of credit guarantees the current value of the Company’s landfill environmental trust liability. See Note 10, "Commitments and Contingencies" for further details.

Atlas also has a letter of credit from a financial institution in the amount of $3.6 million at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, payable to Empire Pipeline Incorporated (“Empire”) in the event the Company should not make contracted payments for costs related to a pipeline interconnection project the Company has entered into with Empire (see Note 10, "Commitments and Contingencies").

Mississippi Expansion

On April 10, 2024, we closed on the purchase of a parcel of land containing approximately 12 acres located in Columbus, Mississippi, including over 73,000 square feet of industrial warehouse space, from a subsidiary of Motus Pivot Inc., a portfolio company of Atlas, our controlling shareholder and a related party. The purchase price was $1.45 million, of which $500,000 is to be paid no later than 60 days after the closing and $350,000 is to be paid no later than 120 days after the closing, This property provides us with access to 32.5 MW of additional power capacity. The transaction closed in April 2024 and we deployed 7 MW of miners on the property in the second quarter of 2024.

Other

Affiliates of Atlas from time to time incur certain costs for the benefit of Greenidge, including for the maintenance of certain aforementioned letters of credit, which are fully reimbursed by Greenidge. Greenidge did not reimburse Atlas or its affiliates for any such costs during the quarter ended March 31, 2024.