Rockdale AI data center capacity
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot has secured 191 megawatts of AI data-center capacity at Rockdale, Texas under a 20-year lease
Source (primary)
BTCPressWire Tracks Bitcoin Mining Shift Toward AI Infrastructure as Riot Secures $9.1 Billion Data Center Deal - openpr.com (-, news_article)
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Quote: “signing a 20-year data-center lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release describes a 20-year lease for 191 MW of critical IT capacity at Rockdale, Texas, built for a frontier AI customer and counted toward Riot's contracted AI data-center capacity.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot's lease covers 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity
- The capacity is at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus
- The lease term is 20 years
- The capacity is for AI data-center use, serving a frontier AI customer
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.openpr.com/news/4630380/btcpresswire-tracks-bitcoin-mining-shift-toward-ai) in full (18,881 characters, retrieved September 18, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms BTCPressWire Tracks Bitcoin Mining Shift Toward AI Infrastructure as Riot Secures $9.1 Billion Data Center Deal - openpr.com
Quote: “signing a 20-year data-center lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus”