Anthropic to rent AI computing power from Nscale for $45 billion, source says

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Anthropic ⁠will spend $45 billion to rent ⁠AI cloud computing power from Nscale's West Virginia data center campus, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The move comes as the AI startup ⁠looks to secure ⁠capacity to meet an anticipated surge in demand ⁠for products such as its AI coding tool, Claude Code.

Nscale, ⁠a cloud infrastructure provider, will deploy Nvidia's new Vera Rubin chips to support Anthropic's computing ⁠needs, the person said.

The six-year agreement represents about 460 megawatts of power capacity.

Anthropic has ⁠moved aggressively in recent months to overcome capacity constraints for its services. It agreed in May to rent the ⁠full computing power of SpaceX's Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and 300 megawatts of new capacity.

Anthropic ⁠declined to comment.

Bloomberg News first reported the development earlier on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City and Anzar Mehraj in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)