Riot Platforms has filed plans with Texas regulators to construct a new two-story data center building at its existing campus in Corsicana, Texas, in a project valued at USD 400 million that is scheduled for completion in mid-2028.

Project Ditto Takes Shape in Navarro County

The filing, submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, covers a new facility at 6980 FM 709 in Corsicana, a city approximately 50 miles southeast of Dallas that serves as the county seat of Navarro County.

The project, designated internally as Project Ditto, will deliver a two-story data center building totaling 335,430 square feet, or roughly 31,162 square meters.

The Corsicana campus already hosts several existing buildings and sits on approximately 890 acres, following Riot's acquisition of an additional 238 acres last year.

The site currently carries 400 megawatts of power capacity dedicated to Bitcoin mining operations. Riot's long-term plans call for expanding the site's total power capacity to 1 gigawatt.

A Campus in Transition

The new building arrives as Riot Platforms pursues a broader strategic shift in how it uses its infrastructure. The company has stated it aims to pivot at least part of the Corsicana campus toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing use cases, signaling a deliberate move to diversify beyond its origins as a cryptocurrency miner.

That pivot is already producing commercial results elsewhere in the company's Texas portfolio.

Riot recently secured semiconductor giant AMD as a customer, with AMD agreeing to lease 50 megawatts of capacity at Riot's facility in Rockdale, Texas.

The Rockdale site is Riot's other major Texas campus, and together with Corsicana, it forms the backbone of a Texas infrastructure footprint that spans more than 1,100 acres and 1.7 gigawatts of power capacity.

Scale of Riot's Overall Portfolio

Formerly operating under the name Riot Blockchain, Riot Platforms is one of the world's largest Bitcoin miners by scale.

In addition to its two Texas campuses, the company owns and operates two sites in Kentucky with a combined operational capacity of 60 megawatts.

Those Kentucky assets were acquired through Riot's purchase of Block Mining in July 2024. At full build-out, the Kentucky sites could reach more than 300 megawatts of capacity, according to the company's own disclosures.

The combined Texas and Kentucky holdings give Riot a geographically distributed infrastructure base that management has been repositioning to serve the growing demand for AI and HPC workloads, markets that have drawn significant capital investment across the data center industry in recent years.

Environmental Scrutiny

The Corsicana campus has not been without controversy. Greenpeace previously accused Riot of operating what it described as the largest and one of the most energy and carbon-intensive Bitcoin mines in the United States.

The characterization reflects the substantial power demands associated with cryptocurrency mining at the scale Riot operates, and the expansion plans for the campus, including the eventual build-out to 1 gigawatt of capacity, indicate that power consumption at the site will continue to grow significantly in the years ahead.

The USD 400 million Project Ditto filing represents one of the more substantial individual construction commitments Riot has disclosed for the campus, and its two-year development timeline places the new facility's completion in the spring of 2028.