River Bend first data hall completion
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
The first of four data halls at the River Bend Campus in St. Francisville is expected to be completed by early 2027.
Source (primary)
‘It’s going to be future-resilient.’ Get a look at the St. Francisville Hut 8 data center. - The Advocate (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The first of four data halls is expected to be completed on the more than 600-acre site owned by Miami-based Hut 8 by early 2027”
How we checked this
Checked on October 8, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states that the first of four data halls at the St. Francisville site is expected to be completed by early 2027.
Confirmed in the source:
- The River Bend Campus in St. Francisville is planned to have four data halls
- The first data hall is expected to be completed by early 2027
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/west_feliciana/st-francisville-data-center-construction-river-bend-hut8/article_4e6499a4-39b5-4137-9a32-b1bfd37a4dc4.html) in full (14,728 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms ‘It’s going to be future-resilient.’ Get a look at the St. Francisville Hut 8 data center. - The Advocate
Quote: “The first of four data halls is expected to be completed on the more than 600-acre site owned by Miami-based Hut 8 by early 2027”