Anthropic signs $45 billion compute deal with Nscale

Anthropic has agreed to a $45 billion, six-year deal to rent computing power from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, in a move to secure massive capacity for its AI models. The agreement, reported on August 26, 2026, will see Nscale deploy Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin chips at its flagship data center campus in West Virginia, providing approximately 460 megawatts of power. The compute capacity is expected to begin powering Anthropic's services in late 2027.

The deal represents one of the largest cloud computing agreements ever signed and is part of a broader, aggressive push by Anthropic to scale its infrastructure. Over the past eight months, the company has signed a series of major compute partnerships to compete with rivals like OpenAI. Earlier in August, Anthropic secured a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta for a six-year supply of computing power from a data center in Norway. In July, the company signed a $5 billion computer-related deal with AMD. In May, Anthropic entered into a large computing deal with SpaceX, reportedly providing $1.25 billion worth of capacity each month from two data centers. In April, the company expanded its partnership...