Riot Q2 Earnings and $9.1B Rockdale Deal, NVIDIA’s $500B Financing Program, ERCOT Seeks Pushback on Batch Zero Deadlines

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For today’s earnings update, we take a look at Riot Platform’s Q2 results, including its recently inked 191 MW, $9.1B deal with a leading AI lab (reportedly Anthropic). We also touch on NVIDIA’s new $500 billion financing program for neoclouds and data center operators, and ERCOT’s request to the Texas PUC to move deadlines for Batch Zero approval to make room for Governor Abbott’s data center audit. And for today’s interview, AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton discusses frustrations with using ChatGPT and Anthropic for code audits in the wake of the Coldcard hack, and why he believes such cybersecurity stonewalling presents an existential risk to American progress.

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