Anthropic data center - full buildout completion
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Plans to complete the full 191-megawatt buildout of Anthropic-contracted data center capacity by June 2028
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: “completion of the full 191-megawatt buildout by June 2028”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states Riot is targeting completion of the full 191-megawatt buildout of the Anthropic-contracted capacity by June 2028.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot Platforms plans to complete the full buildout of the Anthropic-contracted data center capacity
- The full buildout is 191 megawatts
- The completion target date is June 2028
- 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: “completion of the full 191-megawatt buildout by June 2028”