Anthropic commits $45B Nscale compute deal to secure AI capacity

Anthropic has agreed to spend about $45 billion over six years leasing 460 MW of Nvidia-based AI compute from British infrastructure firm Nscale’s planned Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, according to Bloomberg-backed reporting summarized on August 27, 2026. DataCenterDynamics and other outlets say the contract will use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPUs and is one of several massive capacity deals Anthropic has signed across cloud and colocation providers.