River Bend Phase II plan
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Phase II would develop about 180 acres with two buildings of about 568,000 square feet each, plus substations and a switchyard.
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: “Phase II would develop about 180 acres of the site... It would build two buildings of about 568,000 square feet each, with substations and a switchyard.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 8, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports Hut 8's description of Phase II as about 180 acres with two buildings of about 568,000 square feet each, plus substations and a switchyard.
Confirmed in the source:
- Phase II would develop about 180 acres of the River Bend site
- Phase II would include two buildings of about 568,000 square feet each
- Phase II would include substations and a switchyard
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: “Phase II would develop about 180 acres of the site... It would build two buildings of about 568,000 square feet each, with substations and a switchyard.”