AI firm Anthropic is planning to lease and manage its own data centers. The company is seeking financial backing from Alphabet's Google for lease payments. Anthropic has signed preliminary agreements for over 1 GW of US data center capacity. Google, a backer, may provide a financial guarantee for lease payments.

Apollo and Blackstone closed a $35B private credit deal financing Anthropic's Google TPU leases across five US data centers, with Google providing payment

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