Meta 20-year Sandersville data center lease
Company: CleanSpark - Project: Sandersville
The claim, verbatim
CleanSpark has a 20-year lease with Anviran (wholly owned by Meta) for 175 MW of critical IT load with contracted base-term payments of approximately $6.6 billion and a 3% annual escalator, under which Meta guarantees rent and operating expenses
Source (primary)
CleanSpark prices $2.276 billion of 7.875% secured notes for Sandersville AI campus - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The project comprises 175 MW of critical IT load under a 20-year lease with Anviran, which Meta wholly owns. Under the agreement, Meta guarantees rent and operating expenses; the deal carries about $6.6 billion of contracted base-term payments and a 3% annual escalator”
How we checked this
Checked on September 26, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states all lease terms, the counterparty, the Meta ownership and the Meta guarantee.
Confirmed in the source:
- The Sandersville project is under a 20-year lease with Anviran
- Anviran is wholly owned by Meta
- The lease covers 175 MW of critical IT load
- The lease carries about $6.6 billion of contracted base-term payments
- The lease includes a 3% annual escalator
- Meta guarantees rent and operating expenses
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/cleanspark-prices-2-276-billion-135445810.html) in full (9,711 characters, retrieved September 23, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms CleanSpark prices $2.276 billion of 7.875% secured notes for Sandersville AI campus - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “The project comprises 175 MW of critical IT load under a 20-year lease with Anviran, which Meta wholly owns. Under the agreement, Meta guarantees rent and operating expenses; the deal carries about $6.6 billion of contracted base-term payments and a 3% annual escalator”