Anthropic named as Corsicana first tenant
Company: Riot - Project: Corsicana
The claim, verbatim
The outlet reports that AI safety and research company Anthropic is the first tenant under the Corsicana lease.
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms signs a 15 year data center lease in Texas - W.Media (-, news_article)
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Quote: “with AI safety and research company Antropic as the first tenant”
How we checked this
Checked on November 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The claim is attributed to the outlet, and the article does name the company as first tenant, with a misspelling. The same sentence calls the lease counterparty an unnamed Frontier AI Lab, and the article cites no source specifically for the Anthropic identification.
Confirmed in the source:
- w.media reports that AI safety and research company Anthropic, spelled 'Antropic' in the article, is the first tenant in connection with the Corsicana lease
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://w.media/riot-platforms-signs-a-15-year-data-center-lease-in-texas/) in full (6,878 characters, retrieved November 9, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms signs a 15 year data center lease in Texas - W.Media
Quote: “with AI safety and research company Antropic as the first tenant”
confirms Riot Platforms leases 910 MW Texas data center for US$28 billion - ET Datacenters
Quote: “with AI safety and research company Antropic named as the first tenant”