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191 MW facility lease for AI customer

Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale

Subject kind
facility capacity
Statement date
2026-08-22
Promised amount
191.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Signed 20-year lease to build 191 MW facility for an AI tenant in August 2026

Source (primary)

Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC - CryptoSlate (-, news_article)
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Quote: “In August, Riot signed a 20-year lease to build 191 MW for an AI tenant”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 14, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-crash-forced-riot-to-pledge-1825-btc-but-this-huge-rally-may-now-free-1500-btc/) in full (23,282 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC - CryptoSlate

Quote: “In August, Riot signed a 20-year lease to build 191 MW for an AI tenant”

View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗