On 2026-08-26, Anthropic announced a $45 billion infrastructure agreement with Nscale as part of its continued aggressive expansion of AI compute resources. The deal exemplifies the AI industry's unprecedented demand for computational capacity.
Anthropic committed to spending $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale for data center development in West Virginia as of August 26, 2026. The deal represents a major investment in securing computing capacity for AI model development.