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Hut 8 Signs $9.8 Billion Lease to Fully Commercialize Beacon Point Campus

The agreement locks in long‑dated rent, doubles Beacon Point’s committed IT capacity and boosts Hut 8’s contracted AI footprint to provide multi‑year revenue visibility.

Overview

  • On Monday, Hut 8 executed a second 15‑year, $9.8 billion triple‑net lease for 352 MW at its Beacon Point site in Nueces County, Texas, completing commercialization of the 1‑GW campus.
  • The new lease doubles the tenant’s footprint at Beacon Point to 704 MW and lifts the campus’s 15‑year base‑term contract value to $19.6 billion with renewal options that could raise the total to about $50.2 billion.
  • Across Hut 8’s portfolio the company now reports 949 MW of contracted AI capacity backed by 1,330 MW of utility power and an aggregate base‑term contract value of $26.6 billion.
  • Hut 8 closed $4.25 billion in project financing for Phase 1 in June, redesigned the first data hall around Nvidia architecture to raise density about 57%, and targets initial energization in Q1 2027 with the first Phase 2 data hall due in Q2 2028.
  • Markets reacted strongly to the deal, lifting Hut 8 shares, but the company still faces execution risks from construction and power delivery timelines and scrutiny over profitability and balance‑sheet leverage as it converts contracts into cash.