Fluidstack $7 billion 15-year lease for 245 MW
Company: Hut 8 - Project: River Bend
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack to develop 245 MW of AI data-center capacity at River Bend campus in Louisiana, with infrastructure supporting Anthropic's AI workloads
Source (primary)
Why Is HUT Stock Rising Nearly 5% In Overnight Trading? - stocktwits.com (-, news_article)
View cached copy (2026-09-01)Live source ↗
Quote: “In Dec. 2025, Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack to develop 245 MW of AI data-center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana”
How we checked this
Checked on September 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states each of these details about the December 2025 Fluidstack lease at River Bend, including that it supports Anthropic's AI workloads.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8 signed a lease with Fluidstack
- The lease is 15 years and worth $7 billion
- The lease covers 245 MW of AI data-center capacity
- The capacity is at Hut 8's River Bend campus in Louisiana
- The infrastructure will support Anthropic's AI workloads
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/why-is-hut-stock-rising-nearly-5-in-overnight-trading/cZsocQzRJt5) in full (5,828 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Why Is HUT Stock Rising Nearly 5% In Overnight Trading? - stocktwits.com
Quote: “In Dec. 2025, Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack to develop 245 MW of AI data-center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana”