Deal Value
Undisclosed
Announced
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Deal Details
Anthropic will pay Nvidia‑backed cloud provider Lambda an estimated $35 billion over six years for 350MW of AI compute capacity at a new Texas data center leased by Nvidia and developed by Hut 8.
A cloud computing partnership providing infrastructure and compute resources.
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