Nscale in talks for ~$45B Anthropic deal for 460MW compute using Vera Rubin chips
Bloomberg sources report that AI cloud firm Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic, potentially worth about $45 billion, to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips. The deal would follow an earlier agreement between the two companies, though specific terms of the prior deal were not detailed in the report.
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Bloomberg : Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips — Nscale Ltd., the AI cloud computing firm, is in talks to sell computing power to Anthropic PBC in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion …
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