Hut 8 Corp. announced the expansion of its partnership with Bitmain Technologies to launch its next-generation ASIC miner, the U3S21EXPH. Hut 8 plans to deploy the model via a 15 exahash per second colocation agreement in the second quarter of 2025, leveraging custom data center infrastructure developed in-house. According to the press release, the initial agreement includes approximately 15 EH/s and is expected to increase the hash rate managed by Hut 8 from 18.5 EH/s to approximately 33.5 EH/s, an increase of 80%. At press time, the price of Hut 8 stock (ticker: HUT) was up more than 7%.