A surprise lease announcement just sent one battered energy infrastructure stock soaring 10% while dragging its crypto mining peers along for the ride, even as Bitcoin itself slipped lower.
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The second 352 MW agreement completes commercialization of Hut 8’s planned 1 GW Texas campus and lifts its contracted AI data-center capacity to 949 MW.
A second 352 MW lease fully commercializes the Texas campus years before delivery, while KBW sees more contracted capacity than Hut 8’s valuation previously reflected.
The 15-year agreement doubles the tenant’s contracted IT capacity to 704 MW, bringing the Texas campus to $19.6 billion in base-term contract value.
Hut 8 plans to bring a 352 MW Nvidia-powered AI data hall online by 2028, with the fully built-out campus expected to generate $1.31 billion in annual net operating revenue.
The 15-year deal doubles an existing tenant's contracted capacity at the 1 GW Beacon Point campus to 704 MW
IREN and Hut 8 were rising sharply early on Monday as both companies announced more customers were spending on their cloud-computing infrastructure. IREN shares rose 9% in the premarket after it said it had agreed new multiyear cloud contracts with artificial-intelligence developers representing $2.8 billion in total contract value. IREN was previously an Australian Bitcoin miner called Iris Energy before pivoting to AI computing as part of a wave of “neoclouds” building out cloud computing infrastructure.
July 20 (Reuters) - Hut 8, a crypto-mining turned AI data center company, said on Monday it has signed a second 15-year lease worth $9.8 billion with an existing investment-grade customer, fully
Hut 8 holds 10,278 Bitcoin worth roughly $665 million and is scheduled to report second-quarter results next month.
Wall Street brokerage Benchmark has raised its price target on the stock of Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ: $HUT) as the compa...
The company is aggressively remaking itself from a crypto miner into a digital infrastructure landlord for the AI boom, asking investors to underwrite a high-stakes strategy before the contracts are signed.
Keel Infrastructure, TeraWulf, Hut 8, and Cipher Digital have posted substantial returns this year, with HUT stock outperforming its peers, jumping more than 131%.
IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) was among Jim Cramer’s stock calls on Mad Money, as he highlighted the AI opportunities in neoclouds. Cramer mentioned the stock and its peers during the episode, as he remarked: How about the small operators? You hear their names all the time. These are more like hybrids between neoclouds and specialized real […]
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