Anthropic has agreed to a six-year contract worth $45 billion to rent cloud computing power from Nscale, according to Bloomberg News. The deal provides approximately 460 megawatts of power capacity, primarily to support Anthropic’s AI products, including its coding assistant Claude Code.
The infrastructure will be deployed at Nscale’s flagship data center development in West Virginia, utilizing Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin chips. The agreement underscores the scale of AI infrastructure investments required to meet growing computational demands.
The contract highlights the strategic importance of securing long-term, high-capacity cloud resources for AI development. Nscale’s expansion in West Virginia positions the company as a key player in the AI cloud infrastructure space, while Anthropic gains access to the specialized hardware needed for advanced AI workloads.
