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Beacon Point second lease commercialization

Company: Hut 8 - Project: Beacon Point

Subject kind
facility capacity
Statement date
2026-08-20
Promised amount
9800000000.0 USD
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Signed a second 15-year, $9.8B lease for 352 MW of IT capacity at Beacon Point AI campus, bringing total contracted capacity to 704 MW

Source (primary)

Hut 8 Stock Draws Wall Street As Nvidia AI Deal Lands - timothysykes.com (-, news_article)
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Quote: “signing a second 15‑year, $9.8B lease for 352 MW of IT capacity. That doubles contracted capacity at the site to 704 MW”

How we checked this

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What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.timothysykes.com/news/hut-8-corp-hut-news-2026_08_20-2/) in full (16,264 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Hut 8 Stock Draws Wall Street As Nvidia AI Deal Lands - timothysykes.com

Quote: “signing a second 15‑year, $9.8B lease for 352 MW of IT capacity. That doubles contracted capacity at the site to 704 MW”

View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗