Northern Data AG is a Germany-based company. The Company develops and operates infrastructure solutions in the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC). The HPC computing power is based on two different types of microchips that are specialized for different applications: ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) chips enabling Bitcoin mining and GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) enabling cloud computing. The Company operates through three business divisions: Peak Mining, Ardent Data Centers and Taiga Cloud. The Peak Mining business unit comprises mainly Bitcoin mining and operates Bitcoin mining hardware and mining data centers to generate hash power. The Taiga Cloud business unit comprises the provision of GPU compute power to customers. The Ardent Data Centers business unit operates as a colocation service provider and manages the Group’s data centers, including their acquisition or planning, construction or conversion, and operation.