Rockdale site acquisition
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Purchased 200-acre Rockdale site for $96 million in January 2026
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms Shares Climb 3.81% as Its $9.1 Billion Anthropic Data Center Deal Keeps Steadily Paying Off - International Business Times Australia (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Riot purchased the 200-acre Rockdale site outright in January for $96 million”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.
The article confirms the site size, price and month of the purchase, but does not state the year.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot purchased the 200-acre Rockdale site
- The purchase price was $96 million
- The purchase took place in January
We could not confirm this from the cited source:
- The purchase took place in January 2026 (the article says only 'in January' and gives no year)
That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.ibtimes.com.au/riot-platforms-anthropic-ai-data-centre-deal-1875646) in full (12,423 characters, retrieved September 19, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms Shares Climb 3.81% as Its $9.1 Billion Anthropic Data Center Deal Keeps Steadily Paying Off - International Business Times Australia
Quote: “Riot purchased the 200-acre Rockdale site outright in January for $96 million”