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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS Ault Global Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Ault Global” or the “Company”), formerly known as DPW Holdings, was incorporated in September 2017. The Company is a diversified holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in the following operating businesses: commercial and defense solutions, commercial lending and advanced textile technology. The Company’s wholly-owned operating subsidiaries are Gresham Worldwide, Inc. (“GWW”), Coolisys Technologies Corp. (“Coolisys”), Gresham Power Electronics Ltd. (f/k/a Digital Power Limited) (“Gresham Power”), Relec Electronics Ltd. (“Relec”), Digital Power Lending, LLC (“DP Lending”), Ault Alliance, Inc. (“Ault Alliance”), Ault Disruptive Technologies Company, LLC and Tansocial LLC (“Tansocial”). The Company also has a controlling interest in Enertec Systems 2001 Ltd (“Enertec”), Microphase Corporation (“Microphase”) and Alliance Cloud Services, LLC (“Alliance Cloud Services”). The Company has three reportable segments: • GWW – defense solutions with operations conducted by Microphase, Enertec, Gresham Power and Relec, • Coolisys – commercial electronics solutions, and • Ault Alliance – commercial lending and digital learning through DP Lending, Alliance Cloud Services and Tansocial. During March 2020, the Company ceased restaurant operations at I.AM, Inc. (“I.AM”). Management determined that the permanent closing of the restaurant operations at I.AM, which owned and operated the Prep Kitchen brand restaurants located in the San Diego area, met the criteria for presentation as discontinued operations. Accordingly, the results of the restaurant operations segment are presented as discontinued operations in our condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss and are excluded from continuing operations for all periods presented. On November 2, 2020, I.AM filed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 in the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California, Santa Ana Division, case number 8:20-bk-13076. As a result of I.AM’s bankruptcy filing on November 2, 2020, Ault Global ceded authority for managing the business to the Bankruptcy Court. For this reason, the Company concluded that Ault Global had lost control of I.AM, and no longer had significant influence over I.AM. Therefore, the Company deconsolidated I.AM effective with the filing of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2020. In March 2021, the Company resumed cryptocurrency mining operations due to several factors, which had positively affected the number of active miners the Company operated, including the market prices of digital currencies, and favorable power costs available at the Michigan cloud data center purchased on January 29, 2021. On January 19, 2021, the Company changed its corporate name from DPW Holdings, Inc., to Ault Global Holdings, Inc. The name change was effected through a parent/subsidiary short merger pursuant to an agreement and plan of merger dated January 7, 2021. The merger and resulting name change do not affect the rights of security holders of the Company. The Company’s common stock continues to be quoted on the NYSE American under the symbol “DPW”.

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