Rockdale data center lease with AI developer
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot announced a 20-year lease covering 191 megawatts at its Rockdale campus with an unnamed artificial intelligence developer, expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in revenue over the lease term
Source (primary)
Riot Clears $200M Coinbase Loan, Frees $341M in Bitcoin Collateral - Coin Edition (-, news_article)
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Quote: “In August, the company announced a 20-year lease covering 191 megawatts at its Rockdale campus. The agreement with an unnamed artificial intelligence developer is expected to generate about $9.1 billion in revenue over the lease term.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 29, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports all of these lease details: the 20-year term, the 191 megawatts at Rockdale, the unnamed AI developer counterparty, and the expected $9.1 billion in revenue.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot announced a 20-year lease covering 191 megawatts at its Rockdale campus
- The lease counterparty is an unnamed artificial intelligence developer
- The lease is expected to generate about $9.1 billion in revenue over its term
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://coinedition.com/crypto-live-news/riot-clears-200m-coinbase-loan-frees-341m-in-bitcoin/) in full (7,586 characters, retrieved September 27, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Clears $200M Coinbase Loan, Frees $341M in Bitcoin Collateral - Coin Edition
Quote: “In August, the company announced a 20-year lease covering 191 megawatts at its Rockdale campus. The agreement with an unnamed artificial intelligence developer is expected to generate about $9.1 billion in revenue over the lease term.”