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No AI operating phase is transferred from other sites.", "Source dates, physical milestones, legal dispositions and current facility phase remain distinct. No identity, role, location, jurisdiction, quantity or exact opening field is promoted." ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.hut8.com/our-platform", "host": "www.hut8.com", "published": "", "date": "", "checked": "2026-10-23", "label": "Reviewed operator source" } ], "checked": "2026-10-23", "whole_record_certified": false } ], "manual_source_reviewed": true, "whole_record_certified": false, "field_evidence_present": true, "inventory_label_retained": true, "precision_label": "Exact site not published; shown at county level", "summary": "Niagara Falls · Niagara · Source context reviewed", "location_display": { "policy": "reviewed-map-references-2026-10-23", "decision": "withheld_unreviewed_point", "scope": "The available point evidence does not establish a supported site location. No site pin, nearby distance or aerial destination is published. The original coordinate and its provenance remain in research history.", "county_display": "36063" } }, { "id": "blockfusion-niagara-falls-ny", "state": "ny", "kind": "facility", "name": "Blockfusion Niagara Falls Facility (North East Data)", "group": "unknown", "status": "Status unclear", "raw_status": "", "status_field": "", "crypto": true, "type": "Crypto/HPC (inventory classification)", "counties": [ "Niagara" ], "city": "Niagara Falls", "address": "", "who": "", "end_user": "", "mw": null, "power": "", "power_note": "", "investment": "", "jobs": "", "acres": null, "utility": "", "water": "", "incentives": "", "note": "Manual source context is available for this inherited inventory record. The inventory label and approximate geography are retained for discovery. This is not certification of current operation, ownership, a separate physical building, technical capacity or a precise parcel. Missing fields remain unknown. Named-site context, with limited previews/corridor crosswalks explicitly identified.. Rick Pfeiffer, Niagara Gazette, April 17, 2025: readable original preview names North East Data LLC doing business as BlockFusion at 5380 Frontier Avenue. A public hearing concerned a high-energy-use overlay/operating permit to RESUME mining. This is historical permit-process context, not proof the permit was subsequently issued or mining was operating in October 2026. Remaining scrambled/gated body was neither decoded nor used. 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Remaining scrambled/gated body was neither decoded nor used.", "Not all fields, current operation, precise parcel or critical IT independently certified." ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/falls-planning-board-considers-recommending-operating-permit-for-frontier-avenue-bitcoin-mine/article_3614d579-696d-4175-95ac-875c7714886b.html", "host": "niagara-gazette.com", "date": "", "published": "", "checked": "2026-10-15", "date_kind": "publication date not established", "label": "Reviewed source" } ], "whole_record_certified": false }, { "overlay": "Codex 3 research cohort 31", "scope": "Blockfusion current original story names its Niagara Falls conversion project, while its hosting and AI pages describe companywide offerings. The captured service pages do not explicitly bind present customer deployment or AI commissioning to the inherited Niagara Falls component. Marketing about a completed conversion, technical availability and future client pipeline does not reconcile the exact current physical phase. No advertised clean energy, uptime, capacity or current role is independently certified.", "fields": { "current_stage_evidence": { "outcome": "named_conversion_story_and_generic_services_without_exact_current_component_proof", "scope": "Blockfusion current original story names its Niagara Falls conversion project, while its hosting and AI pages describe companywide offerings. The captured service pages do not explicitly bind present customer deployment or AI commissioning to the inherited Niagara Falls component. Marketing about a completed conversion, technical availability and future client pipeline does not reconcile the exact current physical phase. No advertised clean energy, uptime, capacity or current role is independently certified." } }, "notes": [ "Blockfusion current original story names its Niagara Falls conversion project, while its hosting and AI pages describe companywide offerings. The captured service pages do not explicitly bind present customer deployment or AI commissioning to the inherited Niagara Falls component. Marketing about a completed conversion, technical availability and future client pipeline does not reconcile the exact current physical phase. No advertised clean energy, uptime, capacity or current role is independently certified.", "Source dates, physical milestones, legal dispositions and current facility phase remain distinct. 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