River Bend data center construction underway
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Construction crews are actively building Hut 8's River Bend data center in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
Source (primary)
This Baton Rouge restaurant is helping feed Hut 8’s data center crews - Baton Rouge Business Report (-, news_article)
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Quote: “the construction workers building Hut 8's massive River Bend data center in West Feliciana Parish”
How we checked this
Checked on October 13, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The Baton Rouge Business Report article says a local restaurant is feeding the construction workers building Hut 8's River Bend data center in West Feliciana Parish. That supports every part of the claim.
Confirmed in the source:
- Construction workers were actively building the River Bend data center as of the article's October 7, 2026 publication date
- The River Bend data center is Hut 8's project
- The River Bend data center is in West Feliciana Parish, which the article places in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana region
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.businessreport.com/this-baton-rouge-restaurant-is-helping-feed-hut-8s-data-center-crews/) in full (5,998 characters, retrieved October 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms This Baton Rouge restaurant is helping feed Hut 8’s data center crews - Baton Rouge Business Report
Quote: “the construction workers building Hut 8's massive River Bend data center in West Feliciana Parish”