Anthropic to rent AI computing power from Nscale for $45 billion

Anthropic will spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale’s West Virginia data center campus, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, as the AI startup gears up for ‌a ⁠major IPO.

Anthropic ⁠has been aggressively expanding its computing power to meet demand growth it expects for products like AI coding tool, Claude Code.

Nscale, a cloud infrastructure provider, will deploy Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips to support Anthropic’s computing needs, ​the person said.