West Feliciana data center offsite cooling water
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
The project's developers say cooling water for the West Feliciana facility will be brought in from offsite rather than drawn from local residential water supplies.
Source (primary)
Hut 8’s AI data center draws interest, questions in West Feliciana - Yahoo (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The project's developers say cooling water for the facility will be brought in from offsite rather than drawn from local residential water supplies.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 8, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports that the developers say cooling water will come from offsite rather than from local residential water supplies.
Confirmed in the source:
- The project's developers say cooling water for the West Feliciana facility will be brought in from offsite
- The developers say the cooling water will not be drawn from local residential water supplies
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hut-8-ai-data-center-030802773.html) in full (9,923 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Hut 8’s AI data center draws interest, questions in West Feliciana - Yahoo
Quote: “The project's developers say cooling water for the facility will be brought in from offsite rather than drawn from local residential water supplies.”