Anthropic 20-year data center lease
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot signed a $9.1 billion, 20-year computing lease with Anthropic for 191 megawatts of power at its Rockdale, Texas campus
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms (RIOT) & CleanSpark (CLSK): Bitcoin Miners are Becoming AI Landlords. Riot Just Signed a $9 Billion Lease to Prove It - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “struck a $9.1 billion, 20-year computing deal with Anthropic this week, leasing 191 megawatts of power at its Rockdale, Texas campus”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states Riot struck a $9.1 billion, 20-year computing deal with Anthropic, leasing 191 megawatts at its Rockdale, Texas campus, matching every part of the claim.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot signed a $9.1 billion deal with Anthropic
- the deal has a 20-year term
- the deal covers 191 megawatts of power
- the power is at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/riot-platforms-riot-cleanspark-clsk-014919566.html) in full (10,433 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms (RIOT) & CleanSpark (CLSK): Bitcoin Miners are Becoming AI Landlords. Riot Just Signed a $9 Billion Lease to Prove It - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “struck a $9.1 billion, 20-year computing deal with Anthropic this week, leasing 191 megawatts of power at its Rockdale, Texas campus”