Summary
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from British infrastructure company Nscale, using NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems. The reported six-year arrangement is expected to begin powering Anthropic services in late 2027.
Why it matters
Frontier-model competition is increasingly shaped by advance access to scarce compute, with infrastructure commitments reaching industrial scale before the hardware is deployed.
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