Deal Value
Undisclosed
Announced
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Deal Details
Anthropic agreed to anchor Zerra DC’s Western Downs Digital Park in Queensland, an A$32 billion, 2.16GW hyperscale data center campus, with Anthropic covering grid connection costs for its leased capacity.
A cloud computing partnership providing infrastructure and compute resources.
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