Frontier AI lab 20-year data-center lease at Rockdale
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot executed a 20-year lease with a frontier AI lab for 191 MW of critical IT capacity at Rockdale with approximately $9.1 billion in initial contract revenue
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms gains as AI data-center momentum and firmer Bitcoin prices support shares - Quiver Quantitative (-, news_article)
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Quote: “executed a 20-year lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 MW of critical IT capacity at Rockdale, with about $9.1 billion of initial contract revenue tied to the agreement”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states Riot executed a 20-year lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 MW at Rockdale with about $9.1 billion of initial contract revenue, matching every part of the claim.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot executed a 20-year lease with a frontier AI lab
- The lease covers 191 MW of critical IT capacity at Rockdale
- The agreement carries about $9.1 billion of initial contract revenue
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Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms gains as AI data-center momentum and firmer Bitcoin prices support shares - Quiver Quantitative
Quote: “executed a 20-year lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 MW of critical IT capacity at Rockdale, with about $9.1 billion of initial contract revenue tied to the agreement”