Anthropic just wrote what might be the largest check in enterprise cloud history. The Claude AI maker has committed roughly $200 billion to Google Cloud services over the next five years, a deal so large it represents more than 40% of Alphabet’s entire disclosed revenue backlog for its cloud division.
What the deal actually includes
The commitment isn’t just about renting server space. Back in October 2025, Anthropic expanded an existing agreement to acquire up to one million of Google’s custom AI chips, known as Tensor Processing Units. That deal alone was valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Then in April 2026, Anthropic struck a separate alliance with Google and Broadcom targeting multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity starting in 2027.
The practical result is that Anthropic’s Claude models are deeply embedded in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, running alongside Google’s own Gemini models. The two companies have been presenting jointly at Google Cloud Next conferences throughout 2025 and 2026.
