Hut 8's 500 MW Logan Prairie campus has been stuck in Logan County, IL politics for 8 months. The county passed a 12-month moratorium in May. Its own State's Attorney recently declared it invalid.
Now
$HUT gets two attempts to move the project forward in one week:
Aug 3: the Village of Latham votes on annexing the site bypassing the county entirely, with an $8–11M/yr community benefit agreement on the table.
Aug 6: the county ZBA hears the refiled application, grandfathered from any new ordinance. The full board vote would occur some time in Aug–Sep.
The upside case: Hut 8 just fully leased its 1 GW Beacon Point campus 704 MW IT, $19.6B in base-term contract value, $50B+ with renewals. Apply those economics to 500 MW and Logan Prairie is a ~$10B TCV asset sitting behind a single land-use vote with an Ameren interconnection agreement already secured.
Hut 8 has said further delay risks the Ameren agreement expiring. So next week could be make or break for the Logan Prairie project.
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