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Anthropic computing capacity lease

Company: Riot - Project: Rockdale

Subject kind
customer
Statement date
2026-08-18
Promised amount
191.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Riot has a 20-year, 191-megawatt lease with Anthropic

Source (primary)

Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot - Bitcoin News (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The company's most consequential move so far is a 20-year, 191-megawatt lease with Anthropic.”

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://news.bitcoin.com/mining/riot-platforms-sold-8078-bitcoin-h1-2026-ai-pivot/) in full (8,030 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot - Bitcoin News

Quote: “The company's most consequential move so far is a 20-year, 191-megawatt lease with Anthropic.”

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