{"id":72174,"date":"2026-05-07T09:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/hut-8-surges-30-after-landing-second-ai-data-center-lease-worth-9-8-billion-bitcoin-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:49:23","slug":"hut-8-surges-30-after-landing-second-ai-data-center-lease-worth-9-8-billion-bitcoin-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/hut-8-surges-30-after-landing-second-ai-data-center-lease-worth-9-8-billion-bitcoin-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hut 8 Surges 30% After Landing Second AI Data Center Lease Worth $9.8 Billion \u2013 Bitcoin News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This article first appeared in The Energy Mag<\/a>. The original article can be viewed here<\/a>. The Energy Mag (formerly The Miner Mag) provides news, data, and insights on the energy\u2013compute\u2013markets nexus.<\/p>\n

The Miami-based company said it signed a $9.8 billion triple-net lease for 352 megawatts of IT capacity at its Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas. The unnamed tenant was described as a \u201chigh-investment-grade company\u201d deploying infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads.<\/p>\n

The deal marks Hut 8\u2019s second major AI data center commercialization after its previously announced River Bend project with AI cloud company Fluidstack. Together, the two campuses now account for 597 MW of contracted IT capacity and about $16.8 billion in aggregate base-term contract value, according to the company.<\/p>\n

Beacon Point is designed as a gigawatt-scale campus with 1,000 MW of utility capacity under interconnection agreement with AEP Texas. Hut 8 said the first phase of the project \u2014 representing roughly 500 MW of utility capacity to support the 352 MW IT load \u2014 is expected to begin energization in the first quarter of 2027, with initial data hall delivery targeted for the third quarter of that year.<\/p>\n

The agreement is expected to contribute approximately $655 million in average annual net operating income once stabilized, Hut 8 said. Including three optional five-year renewal terms, the potential contract value could rise to roughly $25.1 billion.<\/p>\n

The latest deal further reinforces a broader shift underway among bitcoin<\/a> miners and power-focused infrastructure operators, which are increasingly repositioning large power campuses toward AI and hyperscale computing as demand for high-density GPU infrastructure accelerates.<\/p>\n

Hut 8 explicitly framed Beacon Point as an example of its \u201cpower-first\u201d development strategy, in which the company initially secures large-scale power access before deciding how to commercialize the site. The company said Beacon Point was originally underwritten to support its affiliated bitcoin mining<\/a> venture American Bitcoin (NASDAQ: ABTC)<\/a> Corp., before being redirected toward AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The company also disclosed that it redesigned the first building at Beacon Point after NVIDIA\u2019s evolving DSX AI factory reference architecture increased rack-level power density requirements. Hut 8 said the redesign boosted the building\u2019s planned IT capacity from 224 MW to 352 MW \u2014 a 57% increase \u2014 without expanding the underlying land or utility footprint.<\/p>\n

The structure of the Beacon Point agreement also resembles a growing trend in AI infrastructure finance where operators increasingly pursue long-duration, infrastructure-style lease contracts backed by investment-grade counterparties. Hut 8 said it plans to fund the project through asset-level financing structures designed to lower capital costs while limiting pressure on corporate leverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier last month, Hut 8 separately closed a $3.25 billion bond offering to fund its River Bend campus tied to its 15-year lease agreement with Fluidstack.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared in The Energy Mag<\/a>. The original article can be viewed here<\/a>. The Energy Mag (formerly The Miner Mag) provides news, data, and insights on the energy\u2013compute\u2013markets nexus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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