Hut 8 Corp.·Financial Services

Investment expected to increase long-term system capacity alongside development of River Bend AI data center campus BATON ROUGE, La., May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hut 8 Corp. (Nasdaq, TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or the "Company"), an energy infrastructure platform integrating power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive use cases, today announced an agreement with West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, to invest approximately $16 million to expand local water system capacity in connection with the development of its River Bend AI data center campus.

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Hut 8 Corp Hut 8 Corp. is a vertically integrated operator of large-scale energy infrastructure and Bitcoin miners. The Company acquires, designs, builds, manages, and operates data centers that power compute-intensive workloads such as Bitcoin mining, high performance computing, and artificial intelligence.
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