Riot Loses Top Data Center Executive as AI and Hyperscale Expansion Accelerates

Riot Platforms said Jonathan Gibbs departed after leading its AI-HPC transition, as the company used Corsicana capacity for new workloads and reported $647 million in 2025 annual revenue.

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Summary

Riot Platforms disclosed that chief data center officer Jonathan Gibbs has departed after helping lead the company’s shift from Bitcoin mining toward AI-HPC and hyperscale-oriented infrastructure. The company said Gibbs forfeited more than 1.1 million unvested shares valued at about $18.7 million. Riot also said it used excess capacity at its Corsicana site for AI-HPC workloads, sold 3,778 BTC for about $290 million in the first quarter of 2026 to support its infrastructure strategy, and reported $647 million in annual revenue for 2025.

Terms & Concepts
  • AI-HPC: Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads that require large-scale data center power, cooling, and compute infrastructure.
  • Hyperscale: Large-scale data center infrastructure built to expand computing, storage, and networking capacity efficiently.
  • BTC: The ticker symbol for Bitcoin, the digital asset Riot sold to raise funds for infrastructure spending.