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Riot Platforms Signs $9B, 20-Year Anthropic AI Compute Deal

8/26/2026

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Riot Platforms signed a $9 billion 20-year compute deal with Anthropic to convert its Kazakhstan data centre for AI.
Bitdeer announced a 16-year Anthropic compute agreement while maintaining Bitcoin mining.
Enegix CEO Yerbolsyn Sarsenov said the firm is aligning Kazakhstan energy and infrastructure toward AI.
Wolfie Zhao of The Energy Mag warned that retrofitted multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure makes returning to Bitcoin mining hard.

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Riot Platforms signed a $9 billion 20-year compute deal with Anthropic to convert its Kazakhstan data centre for AI.
Bitdeer announced a 16-year Anthropic compute agreement while maintaining Bitcoin mining.
Enegix CEO Yerbolsyn Sarsenov said the firm is aligning Kazakhstan energy and infrastructure toward AI.
Wolfie Zhao of The Energy Mag warned that retrofitted multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure makes returning to Bitcoin mining hard.