Fluidstack 30-day exclusivity on CB-5 160 MW
Company: TeraWulf - Project: Lake Mariner Anthropic AI Factory
What the later record shows
Delivered on time · happened August 17, 2025
Within the 30-day exclusivity window, Fluidstack exercised its option and signed the CB-5 lease for 160+ MW, announced in an 8-K dated 2025-08-17, before the 2025-09-12 deadline.
“announced that its indirect subsidiary Akela Data LLC (“Akela”) had entered into a Datacenter Lease Agreement for colocation building number 5 (“CB-5”)”
2025-08-17 · TeraWulf 8-K filed 2025-08-18 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
“Fluidstack has exercised the option to sign CB-5, adding 160+ MW of Critical IT Load”
2025-09-04 · WULF Expands Fluidstack Deal View cached copy (2026-10-06)Live source ↗
Checked October 9, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Fluidstack has 30-day exclusivity on further expansion at Lake Mariner with CB-5 (160 MW).
Source (primary)
terawulf 8-K exhibit (tm2523008d1_ex99-3.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
View cached copy (2026-10-06)Live source ↗
Quote: “Fluidstack has 30 - day exclusivity on further expansion at Lake Mariner with CB - 5 (160 MW)”
How we checked this
Checked on October 12, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The Fluidstack lease slide states this exclusivity verbatim.
Confirmed in the source:
- Fluidstack has 30-day exclusivity on further expansion at Lake Mariner
- The expansion is CB-5, sized at 160 MW
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083301/000110465925078086/tm2523008d1_ex99-3.htm) in full (18,636 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms terawulf 8-K exhibit (tm2523008d1_ex99-3.htm)
Quote: “Fluidstack has 30 - day exclusivity on further expansion at Lake Mariner with CB - 5 (160 MW)”
confirms TeraWulf 8-K filed 2025-08-18
Quote: “announced that its indirect subsidiary Akela Data LLC (“Akela”) had entered into a Datacenter Lease Agreement for colocation building number 5 (“CB-5”)”
confirms WULF Expands Fluidstack Deal
Quote: “Fluidstack has exercised the option to sign CB-5, adding 160+ MW of Critical IT Load”