$60 million PILOT payment in summer 2027
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 is expected to make a $60 million Payment In Lieu Of Taxes payment to West Feliciana Parish in summer 2027
Source (primary)
How Hut 8's $10 million pre-payment to West Feliciana Parish was spent - WBRZ (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Parish President Kenny Havard says a $60 million payment is expected in the summer of next year”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The parish president is quoted expecting a $60 million payment summer of next year (2027), which the article frames as part of Hut 8's PILOT payments.
Confirmed in the source:
- A $60 million payment to West Feliciana Parish is expected in summer 2027
- The expected payment relates to the Hut 8 PILOT arrangement
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: “Parish President Kenny Havard says a $60 million payment is expected in the summer of next year”