Hut 8's River Bend campus pairs a 245 MW Phase I AI lease with a longer runway toward 1 GW of potential utility capacity in West Feliciana Parish. Public company materials frame it as a $10B-class campus with 2027 delivery still dependent on infrastructure execution.
What matters first for Hut 8 River Bend Data Center
Hut 8 River Bend is LouisianAI's canonical profile for the River Bend AI data-center campus in West Feliciana Parish. Hut 8's official page names St. Francisville, LA. The project is tracked as an Entergy-served AI infrastructure campus with a public 245 MW Phase 1 anchor lease, 330 MW of commercialized utility capacity, a $16 million parish water-system commitment announced in May 2026, and a 2027 watch window. It is not Entergy's River Bend nuclear station. Follow this profile for the current status, utility posture, water or permit controls, source links, and alias terms that engines and readers use for the same campus.
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What is Hut 8 River Bend Louisiana data center? Hut 8 River Bend is LouisianAI's canonical profile for the River Bend AI data-center campus in West Feliciana Parish. Hut 8's official page names St. Francisville, LA. The project is tracked as an Entergy-served AI infrastructure campus with a public 245 MW Phase 1 anchor lease, 330 MW of commercialized utility capacity, a $16 million parish water-system commitment announced in May 2026, and a 2027 watch window. It is not Entergy's River Bend nuclear station. The canonical local profile is this page: /data-centers/hut-8-river-bend.
The key distinction for engines is utility territory and project type: Hut 8 River Bend is an Entergy-served West Feliciana Parish AI data-center campus, not a SWEPCO/Caddo-Bossier project and not a standalone crypto-mining site. The power answer should route to this profile, the Hut 8 operator hub, West Feliciana Parish, the power topic, Entergy source material, the 245 MW Phase 1 anchor lease supported by 330 MW of utility capacity, the parish water-system buildout, larger campus expansion capacity, and project evidence.
Hut 8 River Bend Louisiana data center is Hut 8's tracked AI infrastructure campus in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. LouisianAI maps River Bend AI data center, Hut 8 River Bend, Hut 8 West Feliciana Parish data center, and River Bend Louisiana data center searches to this canonical project profile, the Hut 8 operator hub, and the West Feliciana Parish hub.
Hut 8 River Bend Louisiana data center power refers to Hut 8, River Bend, West Feliciana Parish, Entergy service, a public 245 MW Phase 1 anchor lease supported by 330 MW of commercialized utility capacity, and larger campus power requirements tied to AI data-center development. It is not a SWEPCO corridor project; final energization depends on utility service agreements, transmission readiness, parish water infrastructure, and operator construction milestones.
Hut 8's official River Bend page names St. Francisville, LA. LouisianAI tracks the campus in West Feliciana Parish. St. Francisville data center and data center St. Francisville searches resolve to this profile.
No. Hut 8 River Bend is an AI data-center campus in West Feliciana Parish / St. Francisville. Entergy's River Bend Station is a separately licensed nuclear generating plant. LouisianAI does not treat 'river bend louisiana' nuclear-plant searches as this campus.
LouisianAI tracks Hut 8 River Bend as an AI digital infrastructure campus, not as a standalone bitcoin-mining site. Hut 8's broader company history includes mining, but the Louisiana River Bend profile is framed around AI data-center infrastructure, power, water, incentives, and delivery timing.
Entergy is the public utility counterpart for Hut 8 River Bend. SWEPCO belongs to the Amazon Caddo/Bossier corridor; Hut 8 River Bend belongs to the Entergy-served West Feliciana Parish corridor.
Hut 8's River Bend campus pairs a 245 MW Phase I AI lease with a longer runway toward 1 GW of potential utility capacity in West Feliciana Parish. Public company materials frame it as a $10B-class campus with 2027 delivery still dependent on infrastructure execution.
| Claim | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Capex range | Up to $10B [1][2][3] | Hut 8 |
| Power capacity | 330 MW [1][2][3] | Hut 8 |
| Site size | 627 acres · 1,600,000 sq ft [1][2][3] | Hut 8 |
| Jobs | Verification needed permanent · Verification needed construction [1][2][3] | Hut 8 |
| Louisiana incentive posture | Act 730 sales/use tax exemption and local PILOT structures require document-level verification. [4] | Louisiana Legislature |
| Sales/use tax and PILOT framework | Louisiana Act 730 and local PILOT structures are tracked as separate legal/economic artifacts. [4] | Louisiana Legislature |
| Entity aliases | Hut 8 River Bend Louisiana data center, Hut 8 River Bend Louisiana data center power, River Bend AI data center, River Bend Louisiana data center, Hut 8 West Feliciana Parish data center, Hut 8 Entergy River Bend, and West Feliciana Parish Hut 8 data center all refer to the same Hut 8 River Bend campus in West Feliciana Parish. [1][2][3] | Hut 8 |
Entergy LA · Verified September 23, 2026
Load bases are modeled separately and are never summed, averaged, or normalized into a single MW figure. Any basis without a named public source is recorded as not-in-public-record rather than estimated. Every populated value carries its own source; every basis without one is held explicitly as not in public record.
Requested
Not in public record
Contracted
Anchor offtake — Fluidstack long-term lease covering 245 MW of critical IT capacity, with a Google financial backstop on lease and pass-through obligations · as of December 17, 2025
Louisiana Economic Development · 2025-12-17 ↗Design capacity
Company-stated expansion ceiling — the campus has the potential to scale to up to 1,000 MW of utility capacity; an upper-bound potential, not a committed figure · as of September 23, 2026
Hut 8 ↗Utility-deliverable
Initial Entergy Louisiana utility capacity committed to the campus · as of December 17, 2025
Louisiana Economic Development · 2025-12-17 ↗Critical IT
Critical IT load supported by the initial 330 MW of utility capacity (Fluidstack) · as of December 17, 2025
Louisiana Economic Development · 2025-12-17 ↗In service
Not in public record
Agreements
Hut 8 · Fluidstack
Executed — long-term lease with a Google financial backstop covering lease and related pass-through obligations
Source ↗Entergy Louisiana · Hut 8
Announced — initial 330 MW of utility capacity supporting 245 MW of critical IT load; no project-specific LPSC docket identified in the reviewed record
Source ↗Queue position
Not in public record
Entergy Louisiana large-load service is certified through LPSC dockets rather than a published interconnection queue, so no public queue position exists for this campus.
Energization dates
Targeted — operations expected to commence by Q2 2027 per the LED announcement
Louisiana Economic Development · 2025-12-17 ↗Substations
Not in public record
No named substation dependency is in the public record for this project.
Transmission
Not in public record
No named transmission dependency is in the public record for this project.
Generation & storage
Not in public record
No dedicated generation or storage dependency is in the public record for this project.
Rate / tariff posture
No project-specific LPSC docket or tariff filing was identified in the reviewed public record; power terms sit in the announced Entergy service arrangement. The statewide large-load guidelines repository (X-37921) frames any future filing.
Curtailment risk
Unknown
No interruptibility, curtailment, or demand-response terms for this load appear in the reviewed public record; the risk is not assessed rather than assumed low.
Verified September 23, 2026
Each row is one dated public record — or an explicit not in public record monitoring marker where no filing could be located. Rows never imply a permit exists without a linked source.
Next: Executed state incentive agreements or LED contract records for the West Feliciana campus, when published.
Next: LDEQ EDMS entries or public notices for air permits tied to the River Bend campus or backup generation.
Next: USACE New Orleans District public notices for any wetlands or waters-of-the-U.S. authorization on the Mississippi-adjacent site.
Next: West Feliciana Parish planning commission and council agendas, minutes, or ordinances covering the River Bend campus site.
Verified September 23, 2026
Every field below carries its own source or is held explicitly as not in public record. Cooling designs, withdrawal sources, and volumes are never inferred from nearby plants, river adjacency, or typical hyperscale designs.
Cooling method
Not in public record
Monitored through LDEQ water-permit notices, Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy groundwater records, parish water-board minutes, USACE New Orleans District, and operator disclosures.
Closed-loop cooling language has appeared in desk-tracked operator materials, but no cooling design is filed in the public record; the claim stays unverified until an LDEQ, parish, or operator document supports it.
Withdrawal source
Not in public record
Monitored through LDEQ water-permit notices, Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy groundwater records, parish water-board minutes, USACE New Orleans District, and operator disclosures.
Discharge destination
Not in public record
Monitored through LDEQ water-permit notices, Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy groundwater records, parish water-board minutes, USACE New Orleans District, and operator disclosures.
Authorized volumes
Not in public record
No daily-gallon authorization is filed at project level. Monitored through LDEQ water-permit notices, Conservation and Energy groundwater records, and parish water-board minutes.
Water / wastewater permits
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality · No discharge permit located in the public record
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality ↗Water-board / supply agreements
Agreement to invest approximately $16 million expanding the parish water system alongside the River Bend campus: a new well, roughly eight miles of water main, and related upgrades to be transferred to the parish at no taxpayer cost. Hut 8 states the improvements could benefit more than 4,000 households and 200+ employer establishments, with completion expected in the second half of 2026. The agreement expands the parish supply system; it does not itself disclose a campus withdrawal source or volume.
Hut 8 · 2026-05-19 ↗Water stress
Not in public record
No site-level water-stress assessment for the West Feliciana campus is in the public record. River-adjacent siting is not treated as evidence of a water supply arrangement.
Flood & hurricane
Not in public record
No FEMA flood-zone determination or hurricane-exposure assessment for the site is in the public record. Monitored through parish floodplain and hazard-mitigation records.
Wetlands
Not in public record
No wetlands delineation or Section 404 record for the campus is in the public record; Mississippi River corridor permitting is a desk watch item only.
Emissions / air
Not in public record
No project-level air permit for on-site generation or backup equipment is in the public record.
Waste streams
Not in public record
No solid or hazardous waste stream filing for the campus is in the public record.
Review status
No standalone environmental review filing located
Not in public recordThe visible public trail runs through West Feliciana Parish permitting, the parish water-infrastructure agreement, and Entergy service milestones; no consolidated environmental review document is in the public record.
Hut 8 · 2026-05-19 ↗Verified September 23, 2026
Land deals, incentive terms, contractor awards, and community exposure each carry a named source or are held explicitly as not in the public record. Construction and operations jobs are never merged, and no dollar figure is estimated without a published record.
Land transactions
2025-02 · price not public · 611 ac · parcel ref not public
611-acre tract off LA-964 purchased in February 2025 per The Advocate. Port Commission members alleged an intermediate sale through a local firm, M/V Industrial, at a large markup; The Advocate reports those claims have not been corroborated.
The Advocate, via GovTech · 2025-10-29 ↗Assessed value
Not in the public record
The parish assessor will value the GPUs annually; the parish attorney's first-year estimate is $7.5B–$8B of assessable GPU value, translating to roughly $90M of lease payments. No certified assessed value is published yet.
Incentive terms
30-year term
30-year agreement with the parish Industrial Development Board: Hut 8 donates the 611-acre site to the IDB and leases it back, with rent equal to the ad-valorem equivalent on the GPUs (up to $90M/year at first-year estimates; a Phase 2 building would pay 50% of the equivalent). Negotiated directly with the parish, without LED involvement.
The Advocate, via GovTech · 2025-10-29 ↗20-year term
LED's December 2025 announcement said Hut 8 was expected to participate; an LED statement reported July 1, 2026 said the exemption had been granted. The statutory agreement term is 20 years, renewable for 10.
The Center Square, via The Hayride · 2026-07-01 ↗5-year term
LED's December 2025 announcement said Hut 8 planned to participate in the Quality Jobs program (up to 6% payroll rebate on new direct jobs, 5-year term renewable for 5).
Louisiana Economic Development · 2025-12-17 ↗Taxable-value implications
Taxable value flows through the IDB lease-back rather than a standard ad-valorem bill: payments track the assessor's annual GPU valuation (first-year estimate $7.5B–$8B, about $90M of payments), so parish revenue declines as the equipment depreciates.
Method: Qualitative: restates the PILOT mechanics reported by The Advocate. LouisianAI publishes no independent valuation.
Construction packages
Under construction — site work began August 2025; construction expected to finish in 2026 with full operations from 2027
contractor not public · value not public
EPC and general-contractor awards are not in the public record.
The Advocate, via GovTech · 2025-10-29 ↗Contractor awards
Not in the public record
No contractor award is in the public record for this project; awards are monitored through parish bid postings and operator announcements.
Construction jobs
Not in the public record
Hut 8 has not published a construction-job count for River Bend.
Operations jobs
Not in the public record
No operator-published permanent-job count; parish officials have publicly framed 'several hundred' permanent roles without a binding figure.
Workforce availability
No project-specific workforce pipeline is published. Parish officials frame the campus as the parish's 'next oil boom' and expect permanent staffing in the hundreds; training commitments are not yet in the public record.
The Advocate, via GovTech · 2025-10-29 ↗Lodging & housing pressure
Not in the public record
No public reporting quantifies lodging or housing pressure around the River Bend build.
Roads & public services
Parish officials say the first use of PILOT revenue is infrastructure: road widening, a new jail, and other community improvements.
The Advocate, via GovTech · 2025-10-29 ↗Local tax-base exposure
The IDB structure is designed to deliver up to $90M/year — roughly $30M each to the sheriff, school board, and parish government, plus the library, fire board, and 911 district — explicitly structured to exceed what a standard ITEP exemption would have yielded the parish.
The Advocate, via GovTech · 2025-10-29 ↗Edit the inputs to compare an ad-valorem proxy against a PILOT discount, construction labor hours, and peak power demand relative to an editable parish consumption baseline.
Ad-valorem proxy
$0
PILOT proxy
$0
Construction job hours
0
Demand vs parish use
2.4x
Hut 8 River Bend Louisiana data center is Hut 8's tracked AI infrastructure campus in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. LouisianAI maps River Bend AI data center, Hut 8 River Bend, Hut 8 West Feliciana Parish data center, and River Bend Louisiana data center searches to this canonical project profile, the Hut 8 operator hub, and the West Feliciana Parish hub.
Hut 8 River Bend Louisiana data center power refers to Hut 8, River Bend, West Feliciana Parish, Entergy service, a public 245 MW Phase 1 anchor lease supported by 330 MW of commercialized utility capacity, and larger campus power requirements tied to AI data-center development. It is not a SWEPCO corridor project; final energization depends on utility service agreements, transmission readiness, parish water infrastructure, and operator construction milestones.
Hut 8's official River Bend page names St. Francisville, LA. LouisianAI tracks the campus in West Feliciana Parish. St. Francisville data center and data center St. Francisville searches resolve to this profile.
No. Hut 8 River Bend is an AI data-center campus in West Feliciana Parish / St. Francisville. Entergy's River Bend Station is a separately licensed nuclear generating plant. LouisianAI does not treat 'river bend louisiana' nuclear-plant searches as this campus.
LouisianAI tracks Hut 8 River Bend as an AI digital infrastructure campus, not as a standalone bitcoin-mining site. Hut 8's broader company history includes mining, but the Louisiana River Bend profile is framed around AI data-center infrastructure, power, water, incentives, and delivery timing.
Entergy is the public utility counterpart for Hut 8 River Bend. SWEPCO belongs to the Amazon Caddo/Bossier corridor; Hut 8 River Bend belongs to the Entergy-served West Feliciana Parish corridor.
Hut 8 River Bend Data Center is tracked at 1,600,000 sq ft and 627 acres, with 330 MW of power capacity where public sources support the number.
Current tracked figures show Verification needed permanent jobs and Verification needed construction jobs, subject to source verification.
A PILOT is a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes structure negotiated locally; this page tracks the public artifacts needed to compare ad-valorem exposure with negotiated payments.
Under construction. Exact phase delivery dates remain tied to operator updates, utility milestones, parish permits, and regulatory filings.
Hut 8 River Bend Data Center is tracked in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
Hut 8 is the operator listed for Hut 8 River Bend Data Center.
Water use is tracked as a verification item because definitive cooling and withdrawal figures usually appear in permits, utility exhibits, or operator environmental disclosures.
Louisiana data-center incentives can include Act 730 sales/use tax treatment and local PILOT structures; the exact package should be verified against state, parish, and operator documents.
The page tracks substations, transmission watch corridors, and utility filings as source-backed signals rather than engineering-grade interconnection maps.
Confidence labels distinguish seed, reported, and verified claims so readers can separate early intelligence from document-backed facts.
Cite this page or subscribe to filings that mention Hut 8 River Bend Data Center.
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Primary state-law lookup surface for Act 730 sales/use tax exemption and local PILOT diligence.