Data center projects in Louisiana and Texas coming online
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Two data center projects in Louisiana and Texas will come online in 2027
Source (primary)
AI compute is 'critical infrastructure' like railroads & steel: Hut 8 CEO - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “we have two coming on next year. Uh in in our project in Louisiana and Texas as well”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The CEO says two projects in Louisiana and Texas are coming on next year; with the August 15, 2026 dateline, 'next year' is 2027, supporting all assertions.
Confirmed in the source:
- Two data center projects are coming online in Louisiana and Texas
- The two projects come online next year (2027, given the August 2026 publication date)
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/video/ai-compute-critical-infrastructure-railroads-120000243.html) in full (8,757 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms AI compute is 'critical infrastructure' like railroads & steel: Hut 8 CEO - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “we have two coming on next year. Uh in in our project in Louisiana and Texas as well”