Anthropic花费34亿美元购买天然气涡轮机以应对人工智能电力短缺
anthropic花费34亿美元购买天然气涡轮机以确保其人工智能业务的电力供应，这与其一贯的租用计算能力的惯例有所不同。这一举动凸显了人工智能公司对电力需求的增长和电力市场的不确定性。
anthropic, an ai company planning to go public this year, is buying $3.4 billion worth of natural gas turbines from caterpillar. the generators, originally ordered by equipment supplier onepwr, can produce up to 1.7 gigawatts of electricity. this purchase marks a departure from anthropic's usual practice of renting computing power, including a $1.25 billion per month deal with spacex subsidiary xai. the move highlights the growing demand for power among ai companies and the uncertainty in the market, with the backlog for natural gas turbines stretching into the early 2030s.