Tier 3 build-to-suit facility with phased deployment
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
The 191 MW lease is structured for a build-to-suit Tier 3 facility serving a frontier AI customer, with initial capacity to come online before full deployment completion
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: “The 191-megawatt lease is structured around a build-to-suit Tier 3 facility for a frontier AI customer, with initial capacity expected to come online before the full deployment is completed”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release describes the 191 MW lease as a build-to-suit Tier 3 facility for a frontier AI customer. It also says initial capacity is expected to come online before the full deployment is completed.
Confirmed in the source:
- The lease covers 191 MW
- The lease is structured around a build-to-suit Tier 3 facility
- The facility serves a frontier AI customer
- Initial capacity is expected to come online before the full deployment is completed
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: “The 191-megawatt lease is structured around a build-to-suit Tier 3 facility for a frontier AI customer, with initial capacity expected to come online before the full deployment is completed”