Bitfarms Exits Latam with $30M Facility Sale

Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms announced a complete exit from the Latin American market following a $30 million sale of a Paraguayan facility.

In a Friday notice, Bitfarms said it had reached an agreement with the Sympatheia Power Fund for its 70 megawatt (MW) facility in Paso Pe, Paraguay. Under the deal, the power company will acquire shares of the Bitfarms subsidiary that holds the assets for the facility, with the crypto miner receiving $9 million in cash in the first quarter of 2026 and $21 million over the next 10 months.

According to Bitfarms CEO Ben Gagnon, the company’s energy operations would become “100% North American” following its exit from Latin America, with cash from the deal reinvested into AI and high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure this year. The company said it had 430 MW capacity under development in the US, with 2.1 gigawatts as part of a multi-year plan for North America.

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The shuttering of its Latin American operations adopted Bitfarms asserting in November that it deliberate to shift from Bitcoin (BTC) mining to powering AI over the following two years, beginning with changing an 18 MW facility in Washington state. The worth of Bitfarms’ inventory (BITF) dipped 18% following the announcement, and has declined about 20% within the earlier 30 days.

US funding financial institution bullish on shift from mining to HPC

Bitfarms will not be the one crypto mining firm shifting its technique nearer to AI and HPC. In 2025, TeraWulf secured three lease agreements price $6.7 billion with AI infrastructure supplier Fluidstack, and deliberate to broaden one among its New York amenities as a part of a $3.2 billion deal.

Citing the corporate’s “leasing combine shift” from Bitcoin mining to HPC, funding financial institution Keefe, Bruyette & Woods on Wednesday upgraded its evaluation of Bitfarms’ inventory to “outperform” raised the share value goal to $24.