River Bend site acreage
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 owns a River Bend site of more than 600 acres in St. Francisville, Louisiana.
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 more than 600-acre site owned by Miami-based Hut 8”
How we checked this
Checked on October 8, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article describes the St. Francisville site as more than 600 acres and owned by Miami-based Hut 8.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8 owns the River Bend site in St. Francisville, Louisiana
- The site covers more than 600 acres
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 more than 600-acre site owned by Miami-based Hut 8”