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Riot Platforms Stock Gains as Bitcoin Crosses $72,000
22 Aug
Summary
- Riot Platforms stock rose as Bitcoin surpassed $72,000.
- New AI power deals with Anthropic and AMD generate $9.8 billion.
- The company secured 241 megawatts of power capacity.
Riot Platforms Inc. shares experienced an increase on Thursday, aligning with a positive trend in the broader cryptocurrency market. This upward movement coincided with Bitcoin's notable breach of a key resistance level, trading above $72,000.
The company's financial results for the second quarter, released on August 10, revealed total revenue of $174.2 million, marking a 14% year-over-year increase. A significant portion of this growth came from its data center operations, contributing $23.2 million.
Riot has secured a substantial 20-year lease agreement with AI firm Anthropic for 191 megawatts of power at its Rockdale, Texas campus. Coupled with an existing arrangement with AMD, this brings the total contracted capacity to 241 megawatts, projected to generate around $9.8 billion in long-term revenue.
CEO Jason Les highlighted these infrastructure deals as a critical step in Riot's development into a major data center provider, capable of supporting demanding computational workloads.
