BlockBeats News, May 19th, Hut 8 today announced that it has reached an agreement with the West Feliciana Parish in Louisiana, USA to invest approximately $16 million to expand the local water supply system to complement the development of its River Bend artificial intelligence data center campus.

The investment includes the construction of a new water well, about 8 miles (approximately 13 kilometers) of water supply pipelines, and other system upgrade projects. The relevant infrastructure will be transferred to the parish free of charge after completion and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026, with no cost to taxpayers.

Hut 8 stated that this initiative is part of its energy infrastructure platform strategy, aimed at integrating power, digital infrastructure, and computing capacity to support the next generation of high-energy computing demands (such as AI data centers).