RIOT CASHES BITCOIN TO BUILD AI

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A bitcoin miner runs specialized computers that help secure Bitcoin and earn coins. Those machines need electricity and somewhere to sit.

Riot Platforms is putting its land and power infrastructure to another use: collecting rent from the artificial intelligence industry.

In its November 4 results, Riot said it sold 20,264 bitcoin during the first 9 months of 2026 for about US$1.5 billion, primarily to fund data center development. It still mines bitcoin.

The piggy bank hasn't retired; it's financing a landlord costume.

The big announcement: a 15-year lease covering 910 megawatts of computing capacity at Corsicana, Texas. A megawatt measures power; the deal reserves an enormous electricity supply for an unnamed leading AI lab.

Riot supplies land and power infrastructure. The tenant supplies and operates the computing equipment and bears substantially all operating costs.

Rent is payable on the full capacity regardless of use. Finally, a business where an idle computer can still owe you money.

Riot puts contracted revenue over the initial term at about US$28 billion. That's revenue across 15 years, not profit today.

Delivery is scheduled in phases during 2027 and 2028; construction and financing risks remain.

The useful lesson: owning the powered site can matter as much as owning the machines. A lease offers agreed payments; a coin offers a changing market price.

Neither removes risk.

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