River Bend IT lease capacity
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
River Bend lease provides 245 MW of IT capacity with Right of First Offer for up to 1,000 MW additional IT capacity at future expansion phases
Source (primary)
hut-8 8-K exhibit (hut-20251217xex99d1.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “245 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity at its River Bend data center campus in Louisiana. The Agreement grants Fluidstack a Right of First Offer (ROFO) for up to an additional 1,000 MW of IT capacity at future expansion phases of the campus”
How we checked this
Checked on September 26, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states both the 245 MW lease and Fluidstack's ROFO on up to 1,000 MW more at future expansion phases.
Confirmed in the source:
- The River Bend lease covers 245 MW of IT capacity
- Fluidstack holds a Right of First Offer for up to an additional 1,000 MW of IT capacity at future expansion phases of the campus
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465925122052/hut-20251217xex99d1.htm) in full (19,971 characters, retrieved September 23, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms hut-8 8-K exhibit (hut-20251217xex99d1.htm)
Quote: “245 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity at its River Bend data center campus in Louisiana. The Agreement grants Fluidstack a Right of First Offer (ROFO) for up to an additional 1,000 MW of IT capacity at future expansion phases of the campus”