Nueces County, Texas data center capacity
Company: Hut 8 - Project: Beacon Point
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 is developing a data center in Nueces County, Texas expected to provide approximately 350 megawatts of computing capacity for Anthropic via Lambda
Source (primary)
Anthropic’s $35B Nvidia-Backed Deal Taps Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 as AI Safety Tests Resume - The Crypto Times (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The facility is expected to provide about 350 megawatts of capacity, according to a source familiar with the matter cited by The Wall Street Journal”
How we checked this
Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article says Anthropic's Lambda deal will draw capacity from Hut 8's Nueces County, Texas data center, which is expected to provide about 350 megawatts per a source cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8 is developing a data center in Nueces County, Texas
- The facility is expected to provide about 350 megawatts of capacity
- The capacity is for Anthropic under its cloud deal with Lambda
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/09/02/anthropics-35b-nvidia-backed-deal-taps-bitcoin-miner-hut-8-as-ai-safety-tests-resume/) in full (11,723 characters, retrieved September 3, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Anthropic’s $35B Nvidia-Backed Deal Taps Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 as AI Safety Tests Resume - The Crypto Times
Quote: “The facility is expected to provide about 350 megawatts of capacity, according to a source familiar with the matter cited by The Wall Street Journal”