CleanSpark Inc. announced that it has started construction on the second phase of one of its newest sites in Washington, Georgia. The Companyacquired this campus in August of 2022 as part of its recent bear-market growth campaign. Upon completion, the new phase, which is expected to employ only the newest generation of bitcoin mining machines, will add up to 2.2 exahashes per second (EH/s) of computing power to the Company's mining capacity.

The mining machine fleet at the new phase will consist of Antminer S19j Pro and Antminer S19 XP models, the newest and most power-efficient models of bitcoin mining machines available today. Depending on the final number of each model in the mix, the total computing power that will be added to CleanSpark's bitcoin mining capacity will range from 1.6 EH/s to 2.2 EH/s - a 25% to 34% increase from its current hashrate of 6.5 EH/s. CleanSpark mines predominantly with renewable or low-carbon sources of energy and continues to follow a capital management strategy of selling a major portion of its mined bitcoins to reinvest in growth. This strategy allowed the company to increase its hashrate from 2.1 EH/s, in January 2022, to 6.2 EH/s, in December 2022, despite a downturn in the cryptocurrency markets.