20-year Anthropic data center lease at Rockdale
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot executed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for 191 megawatts at Rockdale, Texas, expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in total contract revenue with estimated average annual revenue of $457 million
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms Re-Wires the Ledger for a $9B AI Power Play - MarketBeat (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The enterprise executed a 20-year, 191-megawatt (MW) Tier 3 data center lease with the leading frontier artificial intelligence lab, Anthropic, at its Rockdale, Texas campus. Expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in total initial contract revenue”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states the 20-year, 191 MW Anthropic lease at Rockdale generates ~$9.1 billion total and $457 million average annual revenue.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot executed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for 191 megawatts at Rockdale, Texas
- The lease is expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in total contract revenue
- The lease yields an estimated average annual revenue of $457 million
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.marketbeat.com/articles/riot-platforms-re-wires-the-ledger-for-a-9b-ai-power-play/) in full (19,418 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms Re-Wires the Ledger for a $9B AI Power Play - MarketBeat
Quote: “The enterprise executed a 20-year, 191-megawatt (MW) Tier 3 data center lease with the leading frontier artificial intelligence lab, Anthropic, at its Rockdale, Texas campus. Expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in total initial contract revenue”