20-year data center lease at Rockdale with AI lab
Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale
The claim, verbatim
Riot secured a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts at its Rockdale, Texas data center with a leading frontier AI laboratory
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms locked in a $9.1 billion Anthropic deal, but its bridge loan expires before the rent starts - CryptoSlate (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Riot had secured a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, describing the tenant only as a 'leading frontier AI lab'”
How we checked this
Checked on September 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports a 20-year lease for 191 MW at Rockdale, Texas, with a tenant Riot described only as a leading frontier AI lab.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot secured a 20-year lease
- The lease covers 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity
- The capacity is at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus
- Riot described the tenant as a 'leading frontier AI lab'
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://cryptoslate.com/riot-platforms-locked-in-a-9-1-billion-anthropic-deal-but-its-bridge-loan-expires-before-the-rent-starts/) in full (16,460 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms locked in a $9.1 billion Anthropic deal, but its bridge loan expires before the rent starts - CryptoSlate
Quote: “Riot had secured a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, describing the tenant only as a 'leading frontier AI lab'”