Hut 8 (NASDAQ:HUT) an energy infrastructure platform integrating power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive use cases such as Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing, has registered to open an office in Dubai UAE. The company also disclosed it had raised $220 million to purchase Bitcoin and mining infrastructure and has announced that by March 2025 it has approximately 10.8 GW of development capacity.

The announcement was published in an article in Bloomberg. CEO of Hut 8, Asher Genoot noted that the new Dubai office would enhance the precision and efficiency of Hut 8’s capital strategy.

Hut 8 confirmed to Bloomberg that the Dubai office would house a new team focused on trading and digital asset strategies. The company already operates facilities in Texas, New York, and Alberta, Canada.

Hut 8 joins UAE based Phoenix Group, as well as Marathon Digital Holding who also have operations in the UAE. The UAE has been building its data center capacities as it seeks to lead in both AI and digital asset infrastructure.

In March 2025, Hut 8 announced the launch of American Bitcoin Corp. (“American Bitcoin”), a majority-owned subsidiary of Hut 8 focused exclusively on industrial-scale Bitcoin mining and strategic Bitcoin reserve development. The launch of American Bitcoin follows the strategic contribution of substantially all of Hut 8’s ASIC miners to and in exchange for a majority interest in American Data Centers, Inc., a company formed by a group of investors including Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. In connection with the transaction, American Data Centers, Inc. was subsequently renamed and relaunched as American Bitcoin.

However a Hut 8 spokesperson told Bloomberg that the Dubai office is not related to its relationship with American Bitcoin.

Other countries such as Oman have also invested heavily in powering datacenters for Bitcoin mining and other applications.