GoKawiilAnthropic and OpenAI seek smaller 20-30MW data centers to bridge compute gap
Anthropic and OpenAI are pursuing agreements for existing, smaller data center facilities with roughly 20-30 MW of capacity in the UK, Nordic countries and the US, according to a CNBC report citing sources familiar with the talks. This comes even as both companies have already committed tens of billions of dollars toward massive gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure projects, including Anthropic's $45 billion Nscale deal and OpenAI's expanding Stargate commitments.
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Multi-gigawatt AI campuses take years to build due to land acquisition, grid connections and cooling infrastructure needs, leaving a compute gap that smaller, faster-to-deploy facilities can fill in the interim. This scramble underscores how urgently AI labs need computing power right now to keep pace with model training and deployment demands, even as they bet big on long-term mega-projects.
- Anthropic and OpenAI are seeking smaller 20-30 MW data center deals as stopgap capacity.
- Both companies are exploring such deals in the UK, Nordics, and United States.
- This supplements massive existing commitments like Anthropic's $45B Nscale deal and OpenAI's expanding Stargate project.
Source: tomshardware.com — Etiido Uko, 2026-09-22
Published there as: “OpenAI and Anthropic scramble for smaller data centers as massive gigawatt projects lag — 20-30 MW facilities to provide capacity as mega structures undergo construction”
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