River Bend Phase I building size
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Phase I of River Bend includes a 600,000 square foot data center.
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 phase includes a 600,000 square foot data center.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 8, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states that the first phase includes a 600,000 square foot data center.
Confirmed in the source:
- Phase I of River Bend includes a 600,000 square foot data center
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 phase includes a 600,000 square foot data center.”