20-year 191 MW Rockdale lease with frontier AI company (reportedly Anthropic)
Company: Riot
The claim, verbatim
Riot signed a 20-year data center lease with a leading frontier AI company (reported by Bloomberg as Anthropic) for 191 MW of critical IT capacity at Rockdale, Texas, valued at approximately $9.1 billion over the initial term.
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Riot Repays $200M Bitcoin-Backed Loan - Hokanews (-, news_article)
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Quote: “signed a 20-year data center lease with a “leading frontier AI” company covering 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus. The agreement was valued at approximately $9.1 billion over its initial term.”
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confirms Riot Repays $200M Bitcoin-Backed Loan - Hokanews
Quote: “signed a 20-year data center lease with a “leading frontier AI” company covering 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus. The agreement was valued at approximately $9.1 billion over its initial term.”