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 “high-investment-grade company” deploying infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads.
The deal marks Hut 8’s 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.
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 — representing roughly 500 MW of utility capacity to support the 352 MW IT load — is expected to begin energization in the first quarter of 2027, with initial data hall delivery targeted for the third quarter of that year.
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.
The company also disclosed that it redesigned the first building at Beacon Point after NVIDIA’s evolving DSX AI factory reference architecture increased rack-level power density requirements. Hut 8 said the redesign boosted the building’s planned IT capacity from 224 MW to 352 MW — a 57% increase — without expanding the underlying land or utility footprint.
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.
