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Hut 8 Beacon Point

Beacon Point is the exemplar of the disaggregated compute-supply chain: four companies, four functions, one building. Hut 8 owns the campus and its power, Nvidia holds the master lease, Lambda installs the chips and sells the compute, and Anthropic buys the output. No single operator; a stack where each layer does what it does best and sells to the next.

Attribute	Detail
Owner / developer	Hut 8 (builds and owns the campus and power)
Lessee	Nvidia (holds the master lease)
Operator	Lambda (installs Nvidia chips, sells compute)
Offtaker	Anthropic (buys the compute)
Location	Nueces County, near Corpus Christi, TX (Gulf Coast)
Distance from Austin	~215 mi S
Capacity	704 MW contracted IT (two 352 MW leases); 1,000 MW interconnection
Campus	525 acres; 1 GW campus design
Power	Grid via 1,000 MW AEP Texas interconnection agreement
Compute chip	Nvidia GPUs (DSX reference architecture)
Known tenants / workloads	Anthropic (reported compute offtaker); Nvidia lessee, Lambda operator
Lease value	$19.6B base term, up to $50.2B with renewals (in Hut 8 filings)
Timeline	Energization Q1 2027; first data hall Q3 2027
Status	Under construction

Why it exists here

Beacon Point sits on 525 acres in Nueces County near Corpus Christi, secured by a 1,000 MW interconnection agreement with AEP Texas. Hut 8, a former bitcoin miner, is building it out as a 1 GW campus. The site itself is unremarkable; the arrangement running on top of it is what makes it an exemplar.

The four-party stack

Each layer is a different company doing a different job. Hut 8 builds and owns the campus and holds the power — the ex-miner's inherited competency in interconnected land. Nvidia holds the master lease, securing the deployment of its own hardware. Lambda, a GPU-cloud operator, installs the Nvidia chips and sells the resulting compute as a service. Anthropic buys that compute under a reported $35 billion, six-year agreement covering roughly 350 MW. Four companies, four functions, one building.

This is a different decomposition from Nexus Hubbard's three-party financing guarantee. Hubbard asks who underwrites the lease; Beacon Point asks who performs each function of a data center — real estate, hardware, operation, consumption — and answers with a different company for each. It is the clearest instance in Texas of the neocloud model, where a GPU operator (Lambda) sells compute from a building it neither owns nor whose chips it bought outright, and of the chipmaker-as-lessee pattern, where Nvidia leases capacity to keep its silicon deployed.

The numbers, by source

Beacon Point is also the sharpest illustration of sourcing discipline in the set, because its figures come from two very different places. The lease values are in Hut 8's own filings: two 15-year leases of 352 MW each, 704 MW of contracted IT load, $19.6 billion in base-term value and up to $50.2 billion with renewals, financed by $4.25 billion in senior secured notes at 6.129% maturing 2042. Those are filing-grade numbers. The $35 billion Anthropic compute agreement is different: the Wall Street Journal reported it and Reuters confirmed it through a single source, while Anthropic, Nvidia, Lambda, and Hut 8 have all declined to comment or not responded. Stated flat where filed; marked as reported where reported.

What runs here

Anthropic is the reported offtaker, so Anthropic workloads run here — but through Lambda's cloud on Nvidia hardware, not on infrastructure Anthropic owns or operates. The chips are Nvidia, following the DSX reference architecture. The run-level detail stays private, and the tenant relationship is a purchase of compute-as-a-service rather than a lease of the building, which is exactly what makes the stack novel.

Where it fits

Beacon Point is the disaggregated-stack exemplar. Where the hyperscaler campuses collapse all four functions into one company and Hubbard splits financing from operation, Beacon Point splits everything: owner, lessee, operator, and buyer are four separate firms. It shows how much of the AI-compute market now runs through neocloud operators and chipmaker-underwritten leases rather than through labs or hyperscalers building their own halls.

Last updated September 11, 2026. Lease values are from Hut 8 filings; the $35B Anthropic compute agreement is reported (WSJ/Reuters), not confirmed by the parties. Status: under construction, energization Q1 2027.