Multi-billion-dollar data center in St. Francisville
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 is building a multi-billion-dollar data center in St. Francisville, Louisiana
Source (primary)
Per current $100M Hut 8 agreement with parish, town of St. Francisville gets nothing - WBRZ (-, news_article)
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Quote: “St. Francisville is set to be transformed by a multi-billion-dollar data center”
How we checked this
Checked on September 20, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document describes a multi-billion-dollar data center transforming St. Francisville and identifies Hut 8 as building the property there.
Confirmed in the source:
- A multi-billion-dollar data center is being built in St. Francisville, Louisiana
- Hut 8 is the company building the data center in St. Francisville
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.wbrz.com/news/per-current-100m-hut-8-agreement-with-parish-town-of-st-francisville-gets-nothing/) in full (8,337 characters, retrieved September 10, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Per current $100M Hut 8 agreement with parish, town of St. Francisville gets nothing - WBRZ
Quote: “St. Francisville is set to be transformed by a multi-billion-dollar data center”