Anthropic rents $45B Nvidia chips from Nscale ahead of IPO

anthropic has signed a 45 billion dollar deal with british cloud startup nscale to rent compute capacity for its claude ai models. over six years, anthropic will use 460 megawatts of nvidia's upcoming vera rubin chip generation in a data center in west virginia, starting late next year. this deal is part of anthropic's broader strategy to secure compute capacity ahead of a planned ipo this fall, which follows similar agreements worth over 150 billion dollars with amazon, spacex, and google. nscale, valued at 14.6 billion dollars, is also preparing for an ipo and is building a 1.35-gigawatt data center in mason county at a cost of 69 billion dollars.