Fluidstack 15-year lease
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 megawatts of capacity.
Source (primary)
Hut 8 donated to Gov. Landry's PAC months before Louisiana data center groundbreaking - KRVS Radio Acadie (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 megawatts of capacity”
How we checked this
Checked on October 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states that Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 megawatts of capacity.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8 signed a lease with Fluidstack
- The Fluidstack lease has a 15-year term
- The Fluidstack lease is worth $7 billion
- The Fluidstack lease covers 245 megawatts of capacity
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.krvs.org/louisiana-news/2026-10-13/hut-8-donated-to-gov-landrys-pac-months-before-louisiana-data-center-groundbreaking) in full (13,335 characters, retrieved October 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Hut 8 donated to Gov. Landry's PAC months before Louisiana data center groundbreaking - KRVS Radio Acadie
Quote: “Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 megawatts of capacity”
confirms Hut 8 donated to Gov. Landry's PAC months before Louisiana data center groundbreaking - WWNO
Quote: “Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 megawatts of capacity.”