20-year lease at Rockdale with frontier AI lab
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot executed a 20-year lease with a frontier AI lab for 191 megawatts at Rockdale, Texas, with initial term expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in contracted revenue.
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms: $16.1 Billion Potential AI Data Center Deal Targets Up To $8.2 Billion Of NOI - Pulse 2.0 (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The company executed a 20-year lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at Rockdale. The initial term is expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in contracted revenue.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states all elements: the 20-year lease, frontier AI lab, 191 MW at Rockdale, and ~$9.1 billion initial-term revenue.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot executed a 20-year lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at Rockdale, Texas
- The initial term is expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in contracted revenue
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://pulse2.com/riot-platforms-16-1-billion-potential-ai-data-center-deal-targets-up-to-8-2-billion-of-noi/) in full (2,804 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms: $16.1 Billion Potential AI Data Center Deal Targets Up To $8.2 Billion Of NOI - Pulse 2.0
Quote: “The company executed a 20-year lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at Rockdale. The initial term is expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in contracted revenue.”