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The AI infrastructure glow-up
Hut 8 just put up a very Wall Street sentence: the company says its first two AI data center campuses now cover 949 MW of contracted IT capacity, with roughly $26.6 billion in expected base-term contract value attached. Translation: this is no longer a side quest — it’s trying to become a serious AI infrastructure landlord.
The part investors usually like
The big attention-grabber isn’t just the size of the pipeline. It’s the financing. Hut 8 says it closed $7.5 billion of fully amortizing, investment-grade project financing across two offerings in a single quarter, and did it on a non-dilutive basis without recourse to Hut 8 Corp. In plain English: the company found a way to fund the buildout without immediately turning existing shareholders into extra-fried toast.
Why this matters
The company also says it completed commercialization of its first gigawatt-scale AI data center campus and, after quarter-end, signed a second 352 MW IT lease at Beacon Point. That’s the kind of update bulls love because it suggests the assets are not just being built — they’re getting rented.
- 949 MW of contracted IT capacity across the first two campuses
- About $1.75 billion of expected average annual NOI
- Leases or backstops tied to investment-grade counterparties
Big picture
Hut 8 is leaning hard into the idea that AI infrastructure, not just Bitcoin mining, is the main character now. If the contracts keep stacking up and the financing stays cheap-ish, the story gets a lot more interesting — and a lot less speculative.