$9.1B Anthropic AI compute agreement
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot Platforms entered into a $9.1 billion agreement to provide 191 MW of AI compute capacity to Anthropic for an initial 20-year term at its Rockdale, Texas campus, with two optional five-year extensions at Anthropic's option potentially worth an additional $7 billion.
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. - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) just entered into a $9 billion agreement to provide AI compute to Anthropic. ...Riot's $9.1 billion deal with Anthropic is for an initial 20-year term at its Rockdale, Texas, campus. There are also two five-year extensions at Anthropic's option, which could translate into an additional $7 billion of revenue. ...Riot's deal with Anthropic is for 191 MW of capacity.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states every element of this claim: the $9.1 billion figure, 191 MW capacity, 20-year initial term at Rockdale, Texas, and the two optional five-year extensions worth up to $7 billion.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot Platforms entered into a $9.1 billion agreement with Anthropic
- The deal is for 191 MW of AI compute capacity
- The initial term is 20 years
- The campus is in Rockdale, Texas
- There are two optional five-year extensions at Anthropic's option
- The extensions could translate into an additional $7 billion of revenue
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bitcoin-miner-riot-platforms-just-105000448.html) in full (11,704 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. - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) just entered into a $9 billion agreement to provide AI compute to Anthropic. ...Riot's $9.1 billion deal with Anthropic is for an initial 20-year term at its Rockdale, Texas, campus. There are also two five-year extensions at Anthropic's option, which could translate into an additional $7 billion of revenue. ...Riot's deal with Anthropic is for 191 MW of capacity.”