Deal Value
Undisclosed
Announced
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Deal Details
Anthropic is committing $45 billion over six years to lease 460 MW of Nvidia Vera Rubin-based compute capacity from Nscale’s Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia.
A cloud computing partnership providing infrastructure and compute resources.
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