By Isaac • July 21, 2026 10:01 am •
Hut 8’s newest number is big enough to invite the wrong interpretation.
The company did not receive a $19.6 billion check, and it will not record $19.6 billion of revenue this year. That figure is the total base-term contract value of two 15-year leases at its Beacon Point AI data center campus in Texas, including scheduled rent increases.
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Even with that qualification, the deal is enormous.
It gives Hut 8 a contracted path toward becoming something much different from the Bitcoin miner investors first learned to follow: a large-scale power developer and data center landlord with billions of dollars riding on its ability to deliver infrastructure on time.
The company announced a second 352-megawatt IT lease
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