Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Computing Deal With Nscale

Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45 billion to lease AI computing capacity, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters on August 26. The agreement ranks among the largest data center and cloud computing contracts ever signed by an AI company, and extends Anthropic's aggressive campaign to lock in dedicated computing infrastructure. The company has announced a series of major compute deals in recent months, including agreements with SpaceX, Riot Platforms, TeraWulf, and others, as it works to secure the processing power needed to train and run its AI models at scale.