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Riot Platforms' $9.1 billion Anthropic deal reframes what a Bitcoin miner is worth

8/13/2026

Riot Platforms' 20-year data-center agreement with Anthropic carries an estimated $9.1 billion headline value, Barron's reported, a figure that exceeded the company's roughly $7.3 billion pre-deal market capitalization, per Business Insider.

The case for revaluing Riot's infrastructure is real.

What complicates it: that $9.1 billion is projected revenue accruing over two decades, not a lump sum, and Riot must still build out AI-grade capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, site before earning a dollar of it.

What the power portfolio is actually worth Riot entered the deal with nearly 2 gigawatts of fully certified power in its portfolio, the company says.

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