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Riot Platforms Rockdale

Rockdale, Milam County County, TX

Source: Primary source

Riot Platforms Rockdale is an operating data center in Milam County County, TX, operated by Riot Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 700 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 18, 2026

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Real parent
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Operator
Riot Platforms, Inc.
Power
700 MW
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

700MW bitcoin mine converting to DC tenants; first HPC lease with AMD.

Operator chain

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
1.5 mi
Unknown300446 · 138 kV
Transmission line
1.3 mi
69 kV line
Municipal water
Served
City Of Rockdale

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to the operator (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Texas subsidies →

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Rockdale El in Rockdale, is 1,047 ft from this site (289 students). 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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