Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch.
Nscale, founded only in 2024, has already cut deals with the likes of Microsoft, and will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, its new state-of-the-art chip system.
The Vera Rubin system combines six different chips working in concert, and is considered the cutting edge of chip design. The compute capacity is expected to start powering the AI lab’s services in late 2027, the source said.
The deal, first reported by Bloomberg, is only the latest in a spree of compute partnerships for Anthropic. Bloomberg writes that the deal spans six years, with the computing power coming from Nscale’s flagship data center in West Virginia.
Over the past eight months, Anthropic has aggressively scaled up its compute capacity in an effort to better compete with rivals, most notably OpenAI.
