First industrial-scale immersion-cooled Bitcoin mining hardware
Company: Riot
The claim, verbatim
Immersion-cooled Bitcoin mining hardware development at Whinstone represents the Bitcoin mining industry's first industrial-scale development of immersion-cooled mining hardware
Source (primary)
Riot 8-K filed 2021-10-22 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “To the Company's knowledge, this 200 MW development is the Bitcoin mining industry's first industrial-scale development of immersion-cooled Bitcoin mining hardware.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 22, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document explicitly makes this first-in-industry claim about the immersion-cooled development at Whinstone.
Confirmed in the source:
- To the Company's knowledge, the 200 MW immersion-cooled development is the Bitcoin mining industry's first industrial-scale development of immersion-cooled mining hardware
- The development is at the Whinstone facility
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167419/000107997321001053/riot_8k-102221.htm) in full (16,590 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot 8-K filed 2021-10-22
Quote: “To the Company's knowledge, this 200 MW development is the Bitcoin mining industry's first industrial-scale development of immersion-cooled Bitcoin mining hardware.”