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Bitcoin miner Marathon invested a total of $31.3 million in hosting provider Compute North, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The investments are broken down between different Compute North corporate entities. Marathon invested $10 million in convertible preferred stock of Compute North Holdings, Inc and $21.3 million related to an unsecured senior promissory note with Compute North LLC. Additionally, Marathon paid Compute North entities a total of $50 million in operating deposits.

Marathon doesn’t expect the bankruptcy process to affect its projected growth target of 23 exahashes per second (EH/s) in 2023, according to a statement published Thursday.

“While we expect operations to continue as originally anticipated, our asset light model provides us with the optionality to relocate our miners to other locations, should the need arise,” said Fred Thiel, Marathon’s chairman and CEO.

The firm recently started energization at a colocated 280-megawatt wind-powered bitcoin mining facility in West Texas with Compute North. The two companies also closed an additional 42-megawatt hosting deal in July. 

The Compute North entities associated with both the King Mountain wind farm and Wolf Hollow sites in Texas sites are not directly subject to the Chapter 11 process, Marathon said. While there have been “some delays” at Wolf Hollow — which Compute North has attributed to a regulatory matter — the King Mountain site has not been negatively impacted, the company said.

“Compute North has been a supportive partner, and we respect this voluntary step to stabilize their business,” Marathon said. 

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