Vertiv power and cooling for River Bend
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Vertiv provides electricity and cooling for the River Bend data center campus, which is being built as a modular facility with most components built off-site.
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: “his company provides electricity and cooling for the data center campus”
How we checked this
Checked on October 8, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
Vertiv's CEO told the paper his company supplies power and cooling for the campus and described it as a modular build with most pieces made off-site.
Confirmed in the source:
- Vertiv provides electricity and cooling for the River Bend data center campus, according to Vertiv CEO Giordano Albertazzi
- River Bend is being built as a modular data center with most components built off-site and then delivered for installation
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: “his company provides electricity and cooling for the data center campus”