CleanSpark stock gains 5% on proposed $2.23B debt deal

CleanSpark shares have gained 4.73% to close near $13.40 after the Bitcoin miner proposed a $2.227 billion secured notes offering to finance construction at its Sandersville data center campus.

Summary

• CleanSpark plans to issue $2.227 billion of senior secured notes due in 2031.

• Proceeds would fund Sandersville construction, reimburse earlier investments and establish debt reserves.

• The proposed debt cannot be converted into CleanSpark shares under the announced terms.

• CleanSpark produced 593 Bitcoin in August and held 13,703 BTC at month-end.

CleanSpark said on Sep. 17 that its wholly owned subsidiary, CSDC Finance I LLC, plans to sell $2.227 billion of senior secured notes through a private placement.

The notes would mature in 2031, with most of the proceeds directed toward completing CleanSpark’s Sandersville data center in Georgia. According to the company, the financing would also reimburse certain equity investments already made in the project and create debt-service reserve accounts.

Rather than issuing the debt directly, CleanSpark has placed the proposed transaction within a subsidiary tied to the Sandersville project. CSRE Properties Sandersville LLC, another wholly owned unit, would guarantee the notes.

CleanSpark said the debt would also receive a first-priority lien on most assets belonging to the issuer and the property company. Under the proposed structure, the Sandersville assets would therefore serve as collateral for the financing.

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CleanSpark debt plan avoids announced share conversion

For CleanSpark investors, the structure differs from a convertible bond or new share sale because the announced notes carry no right to be exchanged for CLSK stock. The company’s proposal therefore does not create direct share dilution through conversion under the terms disclosed on Thursday.

Debt financing still places repayment and interest obligations on the borrower, while pledged assets may be available to creditors if the issuer defaults. CleanSpark has not yet disclosed the notes’ interest rate, issue price, or final closing date in its public announcement.

Completion of the private placement remains dependent on market conditions and other customary requirements, according to the company. CleanSpark also said there was no assurance that the transaction would close under the proposed terms or at all.

If the amount raised is insufficient to finish the Sandersville facility, CleanSpark will provide a customary completion guarantee. Under that agreement, the Nasdaq-listed parent would supply the issuer with the additional money needed to complete the project, subject to the guarantee’s final terms.

The guarantee adds a direct obligation for CleanSpark even though CSDC Finance I would issue the notes. Investors will need the final offering documents to assess the interest cost, covenant package, construction timetable, and conditions governing access to the reserve accounts.

For U.S. shareholders, the financing adds project-level debt exposure to a company whose common shares trade on Nasdaq under the CLSK ticker. Since the placement is private, the notes will not be offered through a general public securities sale under the announced structure.

CleanSpark stock finished Thursday at approximately $13.40, gaining 4.73% during the session. The move followed the financing announcement, though the trading data alone does not establish that the notes proposal caused the advance.

Sandersville funding supports a long-term data center lease

Construction financing for Sandersville follows CleanSpark’s July announcement of a 20-year infrastructure lease with an unnamed investment-grade global technology company. CleanSpark said at the time that the agreement covered 175 megawatts of compute capacity at the Georgia campus.

Under CleanSpark’s July announcement, the initial lease term could generate $6.6 billion in contracted revenue. Two optional five-year extensions could increase the total contract value to $11.6 billion if the tenant exercises both options.

The company expects the initial Sandersville capacity to become available beginning in the fourth quarter of 2027. CleanSpark has not publicly identified the customer, meaning reports naming Meta as the tenant remain unconfirmed by the company’s financing announcement or its original lease disclosure.

CleanSpark acquired the Sandersville Bitcoin mining facility from Mawson Infrastructure Group in October 2022. At the time, the purchase included nearly 6,500 mining machines representing about 560 petahashes per second of computing power.

The company said in 2022 that the Georgia site had a planned capacity of 230 megawatts. Its later data center agreement assigned 175 megawatts to high-performance computing, placing the campus at the center of its expansion beyond revenue generated from Bitcoin mining.

CleanSpark’s corporate website now describes the company as a large-scale digital infrastructure developer with a U.S. portfolio serving Bitcoin mining and compute-intensive workloads. The revised description follows several quarters in which management discussed using the company’s land and power holdings for artificial intelligence infrastructure.

For former mining sites, access to power and grid connections can reduce part of the preparation needed for data center development. CleanSpark’s disclosures, however, show that converting Sandersville still requires more than $2 billion in proposed financing and a completion commitment from the parent company.

CleanSpark’s Bitcoin production rose in August

Alongside its data center plans, CleanSpark has continued to operate one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining businesses in the United States. Its August operational update showed production of 593 BTC, up from 586 BTC in July rather than slightly lower, as stated in the original report.

August output lifted CleanSpark’s 2026 production to 4,903 BTC through the end of the month. The company had reported 4,310 BTC produced through July, with an average daily output of 18.91 BTC during that month.

CleanSpark held 13,703 BTC as of Aug. 31, according to its latest operational figures. Its treasury had contained 13,931 BTC at the end of July, producing a monthly decline of 228 BTC even as the company mined another 593 BTC.

The July update said CleanSpark sold 229 BTC on the spot market and delivered 350 BTC under call-option contracts. Including option premiums, the company reported an average realized price of $66,133 per Bitcoin for the transactions.

Bitcoin was trading near $76,300 on Sep. 17 after recovering from a decline toward $75,000, according to recent market coverage from crypto.news. The report placed nearby resistance around $77,000 and $78,000 while daily momentum remained under pressure.

Mining economics had already weakened earlier in the summer as the value produced by each unit of computing power declined. In June, miner profitability fell as hashprice dropped by nearly 18% over 30 days to about $30.77 per petahash per second.

CleanSpark reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $198.6 million for the three months ended June 30, up from $104.1 million a year earlier. According to its quarterly results, the company recorded a net loss of $236.2 million, compared with net income of $379.4 million in the same period of 2025.

The quarterly filing attributed much of the loss to changes in the fair value of the company’s Bitcoin holdings. CleanSpark also reported $933.3 million in cash and Bitcoin as of June 30, while total debt stood at $1.8 billion before the newly proposed Sandersville notes offering.

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