Annual PILOT payment structure
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Under the Payment In Lieu Of Taxes program, approximately $100 million annually could be split between the sheriff's office, school board and parish government
Source (primary)
How Hut 8's $10 million pre-payment to West Feliciana Parish was spent - WBRZ (-, news_article)
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Quote: “nearly $100 million each year could be split between the sheriff's office, school board and parish government”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states this PILOT split directly.
Confirmed in the source:
- Under the PILOT program, nearly $100 million each year could be split between the sheriff's office, school board and parish government
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.wbrz.com/news/how-hut-8-s-10-million-pre-payment-to-west-feliciana-parish-was-spent/) in full (8,717 characters, retrieved September 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms How Hut 8's $10 million pre-payment to West Feliciana Parish was spent - WBRZ
Quote: “nearly $100 million each year could be split between the sheriff's office, school board and parish government”