On May 20, Riot Platforms rose 5.1% in regular trading, trading at $23.48 USD/share, with trading volume of $82.49 million. The stock rebounded from prior sessions of weakness driven by insider selling and a cautious Jefferies initiation.
On the news front, recent disclosures revealed that Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund significantly increased its position in RIOT during Q1, alongside other crypto miners pivoting to AI infrastructure. The investment thesis centers on bitcoin miners possessing scarce resources — permitted land, grid access (particularly in Texas), substations, and data center infrastructure — that are highly valuable in the AI era given prolonged approval timelines for new facilities. Riot Platforms, which owns over 1.7 GW of Texas power assets, is actively converting capacity toward AI/HPC hosting and has secured early contracts including with AMD. Within the sector, IREN rose 3.82% and Strategy gained 0.99%, suggesting broad recovery in crypto-infrastructure names.
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