Google financial backstop for lease obligations
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Google providing financial backstop covering lease payments and related pass-through obligations for 15-year base lease term
Source (primary)
hut-8 8-K exhibit (hut-20251217xex99d1.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (S&P: AA+, Moody ' s: Aa2), is providing a financial backstop, which covers the lease payments and related pass-through obligations”
How we checked this
Checked on September 26, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release states that Google's backstop covers lease payments and pass-through obligations for the 15-year base term.
Confirmed in the source:
- Google is providing a financial backstop for the lease
- The backstop covers lease payments and related pass-through obligations
- The backstop covers obligations for the 15-year base lease term
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: “Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (S&P: AA+, Moody ' s: Aa2), is providing a financial backstop, which covers the lease payments and related pass-through obligations”