New facilities capacity expansion
Company: Hut 8
The claim, verbatim
Plans to develop four new Bitcoin mining sites across Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois, adding 1.5 gigawatts of capacity
Source (primary)
Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Expands 1.5GW U.S. Capacity - CoinMarketCap (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Hut 8 has announced plans to develop four new Bitcoin mining sites across Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois, adding 1.5 gigawatts of capacity”
How we checked this
Checked on September 26, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states that Hut 8 announced four new mining sites across Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois adding 1.5 gigawatts of capacity.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8 announced plans to develop four new Bitcoin mining sites
- The planned sites are in Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois
- The new sites would add 1.5 gigawatts of capacity
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/bitcoin-miner-hut-8-expands-15gw-us-capacity) in full (3,963 characters, retrieved September 23, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Expands 1.5GW U.S. Capacity - CoinMarketCap
Quote: “Hut 8 has announced plans to develop four new Bitcoin mining sites across Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois, adding 1.5 gigawatts of capacity”