{"id":632516,"date":"2026-07-21T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=832675"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:30:53","slug":"hut-8-secures-9-8-billion-texas-ai-lease-as-bitcoin-miners-pivot-to-compute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/hut-8-secures-9-8-billion-texas-ai-lease-as-bitcoin-miners-pivot-to-compute\/","title":{"rendered":"Hut 8 Secures $9.8 Billion Texas AI Lease as Bitcoin Miners Pivot to Compute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hut-8-secures-9-8-billion-texas-ai-lease-as-bitcoin-miners-pivot-to-compute-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hut 8 Texas Data Centre\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Hut 8 has signed a second 15-year lease for 352 megawatts of AI capacity at its Beacon Point campus in Texas. The deal doubles the tenant\u2019s commitment and highlights a wider shift by bitcoin miners toward long-term data center contracts. Hut 8 Doubles Beacon Point Tenant Footprint With a Second AI Lease Hut 8 has [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hut 8 has signed a second 15-year lease for 352 megawatts of AI capacity at its Beacon Point campus in Texas. The deal doubles the tenant\u2019s commitment and highlights a wider shift by bitcoin miners toward long-term data center contracts. Hut 8 Doubles Beacon Point Tenant Footprint With a Second AI Lease Hut 8 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-632516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}