Riot Platforms Said to Lease 191MW of Data Center Capacity to Anthropic in $9.1bn Deal
In one line: Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms has reportedly agreed to lease 191MW of data center capacity to Anthropic over 20 years in a deal worth $9.1 billion.
Key points
- Per the report, the deal covers 191MW of power capacity, runs 20 years, and totals $9.1 billion.
- The tenant is AI developer Anthropic; the landlord is Bitcoin mining firm Riot Platforms.
- It reflects a broader shift of power and sites originally secured for crypto mining toward AI compute demand.
Why it matters
As AI training and inference demand surges, crypto-mining operators — which already hold large, energized power capacity — are increasingly becoming a supply source for AI data centers. For Anthropic, the deal signals the ongoing race to lock in long-term, large-scale compute. For now this remains at the report stage, and official confirmation from either company would need to be verified separately.
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- Riot Platforms agrees 191MW, 20-year lease agreement with Anthropic worth $9.1bn – report — Data Center Dynamics