On July 17, Hut 8 fell 5.34% in pre-market trading, trading at $86.8/share, with turnover of $7.7229 million. The decline extends a multi-week selloff triggered by Meta's announcement of plans to launch a cloud infrastructure business offering AI computing power and model access to external clients.

Meta's strategic pivot from a hyperscale demand-side consumer of GPU capacity to a supply-side provider has raised significant market concerns over the long-term pricing power and competitive positioning of independent computing power leasing companies. Hut 8 has been under sustained pressure since early July, with the stock falling over 10% in the prior trading session alone. Sector peer IREN declined over 3% during the same period, indicating that broad-based selling pressure across the AI infrastructure leasing space has yet to subside.

Notably, Hut 8 had surged over 30% in May after announcing a landmark 15-year, $9.8 billion lease agreement for its Beacon Point data center campus in Texas, underscoring its ongoing transformation from a crypto miner into an AI data center developer. However, the entry of a capital-rich hyperscaler like Meta into direct computing supply has overshadowed such individual contract wins.

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