20-year data center contract with frontier AI customer
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot signed a 20-year agreement to provide 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus to a leading frontier AI company, identified by Bloomberg as Anthropic
Source (primary)
RIOT stock gains 4.7% as JPMorgan lifts target to $22 - Cryptonews.net (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Riot disclosed the 20-year agreement in an Aug. 10 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, identifying the customer only as a leading frontier AI company... the agreement covers 191 megawatts of critical information technology capacity at Riot's Rockdale campus in Texas”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states the 20-year agreement for 191 MW at Rockdale, Texas with an unnamed frontier AI company that Bloomberg named as Anthropic, matching every part of the claim.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot signed a 20-year data center agreement
- the agreement covers 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity
- the capacity is at Riot's Rockdale campus in Texas
- the customer was disclosed only as a leading frontier AI company
- Bloomberg identified the tenant as Anthropic
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://cryptonews.net/news/mining/33308679/) in full (8,787 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms RIOT stock gains 4.7% as JPMorgan lifts target to $22 - Cryptonews.net
Quote: “Riot disclosed the 20-year agreement in an Aug. 10 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, identifying the customer only as a leading frontier AI company... the agreement covers 191 megawatts of critical information technology capacity at Riot's Rockdale campus in Texas”