Google financial backstop for River Bend lease
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) provides a financial backstop covering River Bend lease payments and related pass-through obligations
Source (primary)
hut-8 8-K exhibit (hut-20251217xex99d2.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “Financial backstop that 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 document says the lease is backstopped by Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It also describes a financial backstop covering the lease payments and related pass-through obligations.
Confirmed in the source:
- Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
- Google provides a financial backstop for the River Bend lease
- The backstop covers the lease payments and related pass-through obligations
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465925122052/hut-20251217xex99d2.htm) in full (23,132 characters, retrieved September 23, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms hut-8 8-K exhibit (hut-20251217xex99d2.htm)
Quote: “Financial backstop that covers the lease payments and related pass-through obligations”