Compute capacity lease to Advanced Micro Devices
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot agreed to lease 25 megawatts of compute capacity to Advanced Micro Devices with potential to expand to 200 MW of critical IT load capacity
Source (primary)
Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Just Signed a $9 Billion Compute Deal With Anthropic. Why AI Is Now the Key to Valuing Bitcoin Mining Stocks. - AOL.com (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Riot agreed to lease 25 megawatts (MW) of compute capacity to Advanced Micro Devices, with the potential to expand to 200 MW of critical IT load capacity.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states Riot agreed to lease 25 MW to AMD with potential to expand to 200 MW of critical IT load capacity.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot agreed to lease 25 MW of compute capacity to Advanced Micro Devices
- The AMD lease has potential to expand to 200 MW of critical IT load capacity
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.aol.com/articles/bitcoin-miner-riot-platforms-just-105000000.html) in full (9,056 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Just Signed a $9 Billion Compute Deal With Anthropic. Why AI Is Now the Key to Valuing Bitcoin Mining Stocks. - AOL.com
Quote: “Riot agreed to lease 25 megawatts (MW) of compute capacity to Advanced Micro Devices, with the potential to expand to 200 MW of critical IT load capacity.”