20-year, 191 MW data center lease at Rockdale, Texas
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot Platforms signed a 20-year data-center lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus
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 states that Riot Platforms signed a 20-year data-center lease for 191 MW of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot Platforms signed a data-center lease
- The lease term is 20 years
- The lease covers 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity
- The capacity is at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus
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”