The West Feliciana Parish Council has devised a unique way to get as much money as possible out of a planned data center development, potentially generating nearly $100 million each year.

"This agreement that we reached with Hut 8 is going to change West Feliciana forever," said Sheriff Brian Spillman, who will be in charge of a third of that revenue.

According to parish officials, around $90 million dollars a year will come from a deal reached with the Hut 8 data center in St. Francisville that has been the subject of several WBRZ Investigative Unit reports .

Instead of a traditional property tax, the parish is opting for a different strategy in which Hut 8 will pay the parish for its own property.

"What it facilitates is that a developer...can donate that property to the IDB, the

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