AI lab Anthropic has signed a $45 billion AI cloud capacity agreement with Nscale.

As reported by Bloomberg and citing people familiar with the agreement, Anthropic will lease 460MW of capacity for a period of six years from Nscale's campus in West Virginia.

Rendering of the Monarch Compute Campus – Fidelis New Energy

The contract will cover Nvidia Vera Rubin AI chips at the site, which are expected to come online late next year.

DCD has contacted Nscale for confirmation of the contract.