Fluidstack 15-year $7B lease at River Bend
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 MW of capacity at River Bend.
Source (primary)
Hut 8 donated to Gov. Landry's PAC months before Louisiana data center groundbreaking - WWNO (-, 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 16, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.
The article reports the lease terms in its River Bend coverage and names Fluidstack as an expected River Bend tenant, but it never explicitly says the lease covers River Bend, and it notes Fluidstack has other agreements with Hut 8.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8 signed a lease with Fluidstack
- The Fluidstack lease runs 15 years
- The Fluidstack lease is worth $7 billion
- The Fluidstack lease covers 245 megawatts of capacity
- Fluidstack is expected to be a tenant at River Bend
We could not confirm this from the cited source:
- The 15-year, $7 billion, 245 MW Fluidstack lease is specifically for capacity at River Bend
That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.wwno.org/economy/2026-10-13/hut-8-donated-to-gov-landrys-pac-months-before-louisiana-data-center-groundbreaking) in full (13,382 characters, retrieved October 14, 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 - WWNO
Quote: “Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 megawatts of capacity.”