Riot Platforms (RIOT) Stock: AMD Deal and Land Buy Drive 16% Friday Gain

Riot Platforms (RIOT) Stock: AMD Deal and Land Buy Drive 16% Friday Gain

The post Riot Platforms (RIOT) Stock: AMD Deal and Land Buy Drive 16% Friday Gain appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. TLDR Riot Platforms closed Friday up 16.05% at $19.23 after revealing a data center lease with AMD and land purchase The company spent $96 million in Bitcoin to acquire 200 acres in Rockdale, Texas that it previously leased A 10-year AMD agreement provides up to 200 megawatts of data center capacity starting at $311 million Full…

Riot stock rises on AMD lease and Rockdale land acquisition - Invest In Crypto News

Key Takeaways Riot Platforms purchased 200 acres of its Rockdale, TX site for $96 million, fully financed by Bitcoin. The company signed a 10-year Data Center Lease with AMD to deliver 25 MW of critical IT load, starting in January 2026 and completing in May 2026. Share this article Shares of Riot Platforms (RIOT) rose over 7% premarket on Friday after the company secured a major data center lease with AMD and completed the full acquisition of …

AMD stock heads into Tuesday with a fresh $1 billion data-center deal in focus

NEW YORK, Jan 18, 2026, 11:16 EST — Market closed. Advanced Micro Devices will grab attention when U.S. markets open Tuesday, Jan. 20, following Riot Platforms’ announcement of a 10-year data-center lease and services deal with the chipmaker at its Rockdale, Texas facility. Riot pegged the initial deployment at 25 megawatts of “critical IT load” — essentially server power — and noted options to ramp leased capacity up to 200 MW, pushing the cont…