More Louisiana campuses planned
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot said River Bend is the first of planned Hut 8 campuses in Louisiana, with plans to build more.
Source (primary)
Hut 8 donated to Gov. Landry's PAC months before Louisiana data center groundbreaking - WWNO (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Genoot said the company sees River Bend as "the first" campus in Louisiana, with plans to build more.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 16, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports Genoot saying the company sees River Bend as "the first" campus in Louisiana, with plans to build more.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot said the company sees River Bend as the first campus in Louisiana
- Genoot said Hut 8 plans to build more campuses in Louisiana
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: “Genoot said the company sees River Bend as "the first" campus in Louisiana, with plans to build more.”