GoKawiilAnthropic secures $45B compute deal with UK's Nscale for West Virginia data center
Anthropic has agreed to a roughly $45 billion cloud computing arrangement with Nscale, a UK-based AI infrastructure firm, to lease about 460 megawatts of capacity at a planned West Virginia data center. The facility, expected to go live by late 2027, will run on Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin chips and adds to a string of recent infrastructure agreements Anthropic has struck with AMD, SpaceX, Google and Broadcom.
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Anthropic has publicly acknowledged that surging demand for its Claude models has strained its systems, hurting reliability during peak usage, making new compute capacity essential to its growth. The deal also arrives as Anthropic pursues an IPO after confidentially filing with the SEC, so demonstrating a credible infrastructure roadmap is critical to justifying its nearly $1 trillion valuation to prospective investors amid fierce competition from OpenAI and Google.
- Anthropic will rent about 460 megawatts of compute from Nscale's West Virginia facility.
- The data center will use Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips and is slated to launch by end of 2027.
- The deal follows a broader infrastructure buildout including partnerships with AMD, SpaceX, Google and Broadcom ahead of Anthropic's planned IPO.
Source: cnbc.com — Ashley Capoot, 2026-08-26
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