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accession: "0001104659-25-122052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HUT"
cik: "0001964789"
company_name: "Hut 8 Corp."
filed_at: "2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Hut 8 signs 15-year, $7.0B AI data center lease at River Bend; Google backstop, 245 MW

## Summary
- Total contract value $7.0B over 15-year base term, up to $17.7B with all renewal options.
- Google (Alphabet) provides financial backstop covering lease payments for the 15-year base term.
- Project-level financing up to 85% loan-to-cost from J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
- Initial data hall completion and commissioning scheduled Q2 2027; additional halls in 2027.
- Blue-chip execution partners: Entergy, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Vertiv, Jacobs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-122052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HUT
- cik: 0001964789
- company_name: Hut 8 Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465925122052/0001104659-25-122052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465925122052/hut-20251217x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-122052.txt

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