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Hut 8 Beacon Point Data Center
Anthropic is the primary tenant at the Hut 8 Beacon Point data center in Waco area, Nueces County. AI Training compute for Claude is consumed here.
| Tenant: | Anthropic |
| Facility: | Hut 8 Beacon Point |
| Operator: | Lambda (compute seller) / Nvidia (lease guarantor) |
| Location: | Waco area, Nueces County |
| Capacity (MW): | 704 |
| Status: | Leased / Planned |
| Type: | AI Factory |
| Workload: | AI Training |
| Product: | Claude |
| Power: | ERCOT grid, 1 GW interconnect agreement |
| GPU: | Nvidia |
| Operational: | Q1 2027 Phase 1; Q2 2028 Phase 2 |
| Investment (B): | 35 |
Notes: NVIDIA holds the 15-year lease from Hut 8, Lambda installs NVIDIA chips and sells the compute to Anthropic, and NVIDIA is an investor in both Anthropic and Lambda. Hut 8 disclosed $19.6B of base-term value across 2 x 350 MW (704 MW total).