Hut 8 shares tanked 9.74% to $101.16 on Tuesday after the miner posted Q2 earnings that looked contradictory on the surface. Revenue shot up 81% year over year to $74.9 million. Net losses hit $177.1 million. The stock recovered slightly in after-hours trading, climbing back to $102.47.

But here's the wrinkle. Most of that loss existed only on paper. Hut 8 booked $138.6 million in unrealized losses on digital assets during the quarter, according to the earnings release. Strip those out and adjusted EBITDA excluding digital assets climbed to $10.4 million from $4.2 million a year earlier.

The year-over-year comparison amplified the selloff. In Q2 2025, Hut 8 had posted $137.5 million in net income when digital asset gains lifted results. Now the picture flipped. As the company revealed, adjusted EBITDA inclusive of mark-to-market digital assets dropped to negative $94.6 million from positive $221.2 million in the prior period.

Data center contracts eclipse the noise

What got drowned out in the red was a ballooning commercial pipeline. Hut 8's AI data center campuses now have 949 MW of contracted IT capacity with a base-term contract value of roughly $26.6 billion. Those leases are expected to throw off more than $1.75 billion in average annual net operating income. A 352 MW deal at Beacon Point signed after quarter-end alone brought that campus to roughly $19.6 billion in contract value.

The AI buildout accelerated since the company pivoted from pure-play mining in December through a partnership with AI cloud firm Fluidstack. Financing kept pace. Hut 8 closed $7.5 billion in investment-grade project notes split between River Bend and Beacon Point, structured with no recourse to the parent company.

CEO Asher Genoot signaled that delivery now matters more than deal flow. "Delivery is now our central priority. We continue to apply the full weight of our organization to deliver River Bend and Beacon Point," he stated, highlighting the operating rigor the team built through years of scaling energy-intensive infrastructure.

River Bend targets its first data hall in Q2 2027. Beacon Point Phase 1 expects initial energization in Q1 2027. Execution on those timelines will likely matter far more to investors than quarterly mark-to-market swings.

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