Rockdale

Project of Riot

Kind

datacenter

Location

2721 Charles Martin Hall Rd, Thorndale, TX 76577

County

Milam

State/region

TX

Country

US

Status

partially operational as of October 8, 2026

Where it stands

Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus runs bitcoin mining and has an AMD data center lease whose first phase has been operational and generating revenue since January 2026. The company says AMD's next 10 MW is expected in November 2026 and the remaining 15 MW in May 2027. Construction is underway on a 191 MW lease with a frontier AI lab, reported as Anthropic, targeting 96 MW by December 2027 and the full 191 MW by June 2028; Riot cites 241 MW contracted out of roughly 700 MW of capacity. Sources give the AMD deal as 25, 35 or 50 MW, and no passage states the current operating MW.

191 MW under construction · 241 MW planned

Assessed October 18, 2026 from the newest filings, releases and reporting that name this project (newest relied on: October 8, 2026).

Capacity

What has actually been delivered, against what has been promised. Each figure links to the statement it came from.

Who has claimed this site

Capacity commitments in the order they were announced. A commitment that ended shows why.

Claims about this project

Site intelligence

Riot Rockdale

High

Milam, TX

30.5731, -97.0800

Approximate address HWF9+6X Alcoa, TX, USA Reverse-geocoded from the candidate centroid; not a permit-confirmed parcel address.

Conclusion so far Operating: the site is lit at night like a running facility. · confidence 75%

Running: night-time lights at the site ran 9.58x the surrounding area (17 of 21 clear nights, 2026-06-21 to 2026-10-03); surface temperature -1.3 K against its surroundings (13 pass(es), 2026-07-03 to 2026-10-10). Based on 75 clear observation(s) from 2026-06-21 to 2026-10-19.

What would change this: Lights going dark over several clear nights.

Latest clear imagery: Google 2026-10-18 · radar 2026-10-17 · ECOSTRESS thermal 2026-10-10 · Sentinel-2 2026-10-07 · Landsat 2026-10-07 · night lights 2026-10-03 · NAIP 2022-06-10

Newest clear images129 clear image date(s)

How we located this site

70/100 (high): footprint location 40 + 2 independent source families 20 + OSM feature named for the project 10

1. Starting point (the project's stated locality) 2026-10-19
   2721 Charles Martin Hall Rd, Thorndale, TX 76577 → 30.57556, -97.07776 (street)
2. Rejected facts that point elsewhere 2026-10-19
   2 fact(s) rejected
   11525 Stonehollow Drive (63.7 km away); 6980 FM 709 S, Corsicana, Texas 78759 (163.6 km away)
3. Located from a published address 2026-10-19
   Riot Rockdale → 30.57305, -97.08002 (footprint), 0.4 km from seed
4. Located from a published address 2026-10-19
   2721 Charles Martin Hall Rd, Rockdale, Texas 76567 → 30.57519, -97.07836 (rooftop), 0.1 km from seed
5. Located from a published address 2026-10-19
   2721 Charles Martin Hall Rd, Thorndale, TX 76577 → 30.57556, -97.07776 (street)
6. OpenStreetMap features nearby 2026-10-19
   1 named match(es)

Recent changes

• 2026-05-24 vs 2026-04-21: new roof or pavement visible

Satellite imagery on this page is drawn from the Google Earth satellite basemap, USDA NAIP aerial photography (~1 m/pixel), ESA Sentinel-2 multispectral (10 m, with per-date cloud masks), NASA / USGS Landsat 8/9 (30 m, plus surface temperature), ESA Sentinel-1 radar (all-weather, night), NASA ECOSTRESS thermal (~70 m), and NASA Black Marble night lights (500 m, daily). Each image is dated, labelled by source and pixel resolution, and downloadable at its native size; cloudy dates are kept and marked rather than hidden. New scenes are pulled daily as each provider publishes them.