Jurisdiction: US — Louisiana (Entergy Louisiana / SWEPCO / Cleco — MISO South, LRZ 9; regulator: Louisiana Public Service Commission)
West Feliciana Parish (near St. Francisville), southeast Louisiana. 330MW initial Entergy utility capacity with potential +1,000MW; 245MW IT leased for 15 years ($7.0B contract) with a Google financial backstop; Jacobs as EPCM.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Hut 8 River Bend Data Center Campus | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Hut 8 River Bend Data Center Campus | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Hut 8 River Bend Data Center Campus | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Hut 8 River Bend Data Center Campus | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-12-17). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Hut 8 River Bend Data Center Campus | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-12-17 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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| Entergy Louisiana | — | — | |
| Hut 8 | — | — | |
| Jacobs | — | — |
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
Louisiana Economic Development · Dec 17, 2025 · backs: actual date, status
https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/hut-8-selects-southeast-louisiana-as-site-of-10-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center
PRNewswire · Dec 17, 2025 · backs: capacity mw
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hut-8-signs-15-year-245-mw-ai-data-center-lease-at-river-bend-campus-with-total-contract-value-of-7-0-billion-302644600.html
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Jacobs · relevance 0.85
· Construction Dive · relevance 0.90
· Louisiana Economic Development · relevance 0.95
· PRNewswire · relevance 0.90