The Buildout Registry · Louisiana

River Bend

Hut 8 · St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish County, Louisiana

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245 MW
Critical IT planned
0 MW
Energized today
2027-Q2
First power
MISO
Grid region · location approximate
In brief

What makes it notable.

  1. Phase I secures 330 MW from Entergy Louisiana near the River Bend nuclear station, with campus utility capacity expandable toward roughly 1,330 MW in total.
  2. Jacobs is EPCM partner for the turnkey data center and substation, and Vertiv supplies critical power and cooling infrastructure. Planned critical capacity is 245 MW.
  3. First power is targeted for the second quarter of 2027, with Phase I buildout late in 2027, on a 330 MW gross plan and 245 MW of critical capacity.
Deal anatomy

Six layers, and who holds each.

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Power
Entergy Louisiana
Site and build
Jacobs, Vertiv
Compute
Not disclosed
Cloud operator
Fluidstack
Anchor tenant
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Capital
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Timeline

From here to full build.

  1. Oct 2026Today
  2. 2027-Q2First power
  3. 2027Full buildoutPhase I, late
The detail

Each party's role.

Power

Entergy Louisiana. Utility; 330 MW secured for Phase I, campus power expandable toward roughly 1,330 MW total utility capacity; the site sits near the River Bend nuclear station

Site and build

Jacobs. EPCM partner for the Phase I turnkey data center and substation

Site and build

Vertiv. Critical power and cooling infrastructure partner

Compute

Not disclosed. Tenant hardware not announced inferred

Cloud operator

Fluidstack. AI cloud platform operating the leased capacity; Hut 8 provides site operations under an operations services agreement

Related sites

Nearby in the buildout.

Under constructionBeacon PointHut 8 · TX · 704 MW Under constructionDelta Forge 1Applied Digital · LA · 300 MW Under constructionCrusoe Warrenton CampusCrusoe · MO · 600 MW Under constructionJustified Data CampusTeraWulf · KY · 401 MW
Sources

The record behind this page.

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