Hut 8 Surges 30% After Landing Second AI Data Center Lease Worth $9.8 Billion

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The Miami-based institution said it signed a $9.8 cardinal triple-net lease for 352 megawatts of IT capableness astatine its Beacon Point field successful Nueces County, Texas. The unnamed tenant was described arsenic a “high-investment-grade company” deploying infrastructure for AI grooming and inference workloads.

The woody marks Hut 8’s 2nd large AI information halfway commercialization aft its antecedently announced River Bend task with AI unreality institution Fluidstack. Together, the 2 campuses present relationship for 597 MW of contracted IT capableness and astir $16.8 cardinal successful aggregate base-term declaration value, according to the company.

Beacon Point is designed arsenic a gigawatt-scale field with 1,000 MW of inferior capableness nether interconnection statement with AEP Texas. Hut 8 said the archetypal signifier of the task — representing astir 500 MW of inferior capableness to enactment the 352 MW IT load — is expected to statesman energization successful the archetypal 4th of 2027, with archetypal information hallway transportation targeted for the 3rd 4th of that year.

The statement is expected to lend astir $655 cardinal successful mean yearly nett operating income erstwhile stabilized, Hut 8 said. Including 3 optional five-year renewal terms, the imaginable declaration worth could emergence to astir $25.1 billion.

The latest woody further reinforces a broader displacement underway among bitcoin miners and power-focused infrastructure operators, which are progressively repositioning ample powerfulness campuses toward AI and hyperscale computing arsenic request for high-density GPU infrastructure accelerates.

Hut 8 explicitly framed Beacon Point arsenic an illustration of its “power-first” improvement strategy, successful which the institution initially secures large-scale powerfulness entree earlier deciding however to commercialize the site. The institution said Beacon Point was primitively underwritten to enactment its affiliated bitcoin mining task American Bitcoin (NASDAQ: ABTC) Corp., earlier being redirected toward AI infrastructure.

The institution besides disclosed that it redesigned the archetypal gathering astatine Beacon Point aft NVIDIA’s evolving DSX AI mill notation architecture accrued rack-level powerfulness density requirements. Hut 8 said the redesign boosted the building’s planned IT capableness from 224 MW to 352 MW — a 57% summation — without expanding the underlying onshore oregon inferior footprint.

The operation of the Beacon Point statement besides resembles a increasing inclination successful AI infrastructure concern wherever operators progressively prosecute long-duration, infrastructure-style lease contracts backed by investment-grade counterparties. Hut 8 said it plans to money the task done asset-level financing structures designed to little superior costs portion limiting unit connected firm leverage.

Earlier past month, Hut 8 separately closed a $3.25 cardinal enslaved offering to money its River Bend field tied to its 15-year lease statement with Fluidstack.

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