Digital asset hosted mining revenue in excess of hosting cost of revenue for the fiscal third quarter of 2024 was $500萬 (29% gross margin), as compared to $500萬 (17% gross margin) for the same period in the prior year. The increase in Digital asset hosted mining gross margin was primarily due to lower Digital asset hosted mining revenue driven by the termination of contracts with several customers since September 30, 2023. This was due primarily to our shift to HPC hosting, offset by lower power costs from lower rates and reduced allocation of power to hosted customers.
HPC hosting revenue in excess of HPC hosting cost of revenue for the fiscal third quarter of 2024 was $130萬 (13% gross margin). HPC hosting started operations during the fiscal second quarter of 2024. HPC hosting costs consisted primarily of lease expense, power costs, payroll and benefits expense and stock-based compensation expense.
Operating expenses for the fiscal third quarter of 2024 totaled $40.3 million, as compared to $26.8 million for the same period in the prior year. The increase of $13.5 million was primarily attributable to a $420萬 increase in personnel and related expenses, $370萬 of HPC site startup costs incurred during the current period, higher stock-based compensation of $2.5 million and a $210萬 increase in bankruptcy advisor fees.
Net loss for the fiscal third quarter of 2024 was $455.3 million, as compared to a net loss of $41.1 million for the same period in the prior year. Net loss for the fiscal third quarter of 2024 increased by $414.1 million driven primarily by a net $408.5 million mark-to-market adjustment on our warrants and other contingent value rights comprising a $41450萬 increase in the fair value of warrant liabilities, partially offset by a $600萬 decrease in fair value of contingent value rights. These mark-to-market adjustments were driven by the increase in our stock price during the period. Also contributing to the increase in net loss was a $490萬 increase in
A supplementary investor presentation for the fiscal third quarter 2024 may be accessed at https://investors.corescientific.com/investors/events-and-presentations/default.aspx.
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Core Scientific, Inc. (「Core Scientific」 or the 「Company」) is a leader in digital infrastructure for bitcoin mining and high-performance computing. We operate dedicated, purpose-built facilities for digital asset mining and are a premier provider of digital infrastructure to our third-party customers. We employ our own large fleet of computers (「miners」) to earn digital assets for our own account and to provide hosting services for large bitcoin mining customers and we are in the process of allocating and converting a significant portion of our nine operational data centers in Alabama (1), Georgia (2), Kentucky (1), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (1) and 得克薩斯(3),以及我們在俄克拉荷馬正在開發的設施 爲支持人工智能相關工作負載,我們簽訂了一系列合同,涉及修改我們的部分數據中心,以提供高性能計算("HPC")的託管服務。 我們的大部分營業收入來自爲我們自己的帳戶挖掘比特幣("自挖礦")。 要了解更多,請訪問 www.corescientific.com.
Although the Company believes that in making such forward-looking statements its expectations are based upon reasonable assumptions, such statements may be influenced by factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected. The Company cannot assure you that the assumptions upon which these statements are based will prove to have been correct. Additional important factors that may affect the Company’s business, results of operations and financial position are described from time to time in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-k for the year ended December 31, 2023, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law.
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