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20-year Anthropic lease at Rockdale, Texas

Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale

Subject kind
partnership
Statement date
2026-08-10
Promised amount
191.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Riot announced a 20-year lease agreement with Anthropic for 191 megawatts of power capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus

Source (primary)

Riot Platforms Stock Gains as Bitcoin Crosses $72,000 - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “a major 20-year lease agreement with AI firm Anthropic for 191 megawatts of power at its Rockdale, Texas campus”

How we checked this

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What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/riot-platforms-stock-gains-bitcoin-155351836.html) in full (8,574 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Riot Platforms Stock Gains as Bitcoin Crosses $72,000 - Yahoo Finance

Quote: “a major 20-year lease agreement with AI firm Anthropic for 191 megawatts of power at its Rockdale, Texas campus”

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