Anthropic pursues data center leases, seeks financial backing from Google

AI firm Anthropic is planning to lease and manage its own data centers and is seeking financial backing from Alphabet’s Google for the lease payments, The Information reported on Thursday.

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Anthropic, the creator of the Claude ‌Code AI ⁠assistant, has ⁠signed more than a dozen preliminary agreements to lease US ​data centers with a combined capacity of more than 1 ​GW, The Information reported, citing sources with direct knowledge of the plans.