Anthropic, the team behind the Claude AI model, has locked in a $45 billion deal to lease cloud compute from UK-based provider Nscale. The six-year agreement is all about locking down the long-term infrastructure Anthropic needs to keep scaling up.

Deal Details

This contract gives Anthropic a multi-year lease on Nscale’s resources, totaling $45 billion over the term. For six years, Anthropic gets a dedicated chunk of cloud infrastructure, with terms designed to guarantee steady, predictable access—no need to shell out capital for building their own sites.

Capacity and Location

The deal includes roughly 460 megawatts of power at Nscale’s data center in West Virginia. That’s a massive amount of juice, aimed at meeting the energy and cooling demands for heavy-duty AI workloads running on Nscale’s cloud backbone.

What It Means for Anthropic

By locking in this long-term lease with Nscale, Anthropic secures the compute and power it needs to keep Claude running and evolving. The contract’s setup means predictable access to infrastructure and lets Anthropic scale up fast—without the headache of building and maintaining its own data centers.