{"id":641676,"date":"2026-08-11T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/anthropic-strikes-9b-compute-deal-with-bitcoin-miner-riot-report\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:52:41","slug":"anthropic-strikes-9b-compute-deal-with-bitcoin-miner-riot-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/anthropic-strikes-9b-compute-deal-with-bitcoin-miner-riot-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-greenhouse.jpg\" alt=\"Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anthropic reportedly struck a $9 billion deal with Riot for 191 megawatts of capacity from the Bitcoin miner\u2019s Rockdale campus in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms said it secured a 20-year agreement to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a \u201cleading frontier AI\u201d company, according to a Monday press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riotplatforms.com\/riot-platforms-reports-second-quarter-2026-financial-results-and-strategic-highlights\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The customer is Anthropic and the deal is valued at about $9 billion, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-11\/anthropic-strikes-9-billion-deal-with-cloud-computing-firm-riot\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Cointelegraph has approached Anthropic and Riot for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/anthropic-9b-deal-bitcoin-miner-riot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic reportedly struck a $9 billion deal with Riot for 191 megawatts of capacity from the Bitcoin miner\u2019s Rockdale campus in Texas. Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms said it secured a 20-year agreement to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a \u201cleading frontier AI\u201d company, according to a Monday press release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-641676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}