20-year AI data center lease - 191 MW
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot signed a 20-year lease to build 191 MW for an AI tenant
Source (primary)
Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC - CryptoSlate (-, news_article)
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Quote: “In August, Riot signed a 20-year lease to build 191 MW for an AI tenant”
How we checked this
Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states that in August Riot signed a 20-year lease to build 191 MW for an AI tenant, which matches every part of the claim.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot signed a lease
- The lease term is 20 years
- The lease is to build 191 MW
- The tenant is an AI tenant
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-crash-forced-riot-to-pledge-1825-btc-but-this-huge-rally-may-now-free-1500-btc/) in full (23,282 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC - CryptoSlate
Quote: “In August, Riot signed a 20-year lease to build 191 MW for an AI tenant”