Anthropic data center - first phase delivery
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Plans to bring 96 megawatts of Anthropic-contracted data center capacity online by December 2027
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 plans to bring the newly contracted Anthropic capacity online in stages, targeting 96 megawatts by December 2027”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states Riot plans to bring the Anthropic-contracted capacity online in stages, targeting 96 megawatts by December 2027.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot Platforms plans to bring Anthropic-contracted data center capacity online in stages
- The first-stage target is 96 megawatts
- The 96-megawatt target date is December 2027
- The capacity is contracted to Anthropic (per Bloomberg News reporting cited in the article; Riot described the customer as a leading frontier AI lab)
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 plans to bring the newly contracted Anthropic capacity online in stages, targeting 96 megawatts by December 2027”