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Riot Platforms Repays $200 Million Coinbase Loan as AI Data-Center Pivot Accelerates

September 27, 2026 at 15:31 EDT

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Riot Platforms has repaid in full a $200 million Coinbase Credit facility ahead of its April 2027 maturity, freeing collateral that included bitcoin, USDC and cash as the former bitcoin-mining specialist pushes deeper into AI data-center infrastructure. The move comes weeks after Riot announced a 20-year, 191 MW data-center lease at its Rockdale, Texas campus, a contract expected to generate about $9.1 billion in initial revenue.

Sept. 2026 · Riot Platforms

Debt cleared, AI capacity in focus

Riot repaid a $200M Coinbase Credit facility while pursuing a 191 MW AI data-center lease at Rockdale expected to generate $9.1B over its initial term.

$200M

Coinbase facility repaid

5,821 BTC

Collateral pledged at Q2

191 MW

New critical IT capacity

$9.1B

Initial contract revenue

Rockdale capacity stack

Each block represents about 10 MW of critical IT capacity.

50 MWAMD contracted

191 MWNew AI lease

What changes next

Loan obligations satisfied

Collateral security interests released

AI build-out delivery becomes the main test

Bull case

Analysts see contracted AI colocation as a larger driver of enterprise value than bitcoin mining.

Execution risk

The pivot still depends on financing, construction, high-density cooling and reliable tenant delivery.

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