{"id":1038745,"date":"2026-09-26T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038745"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:28:45","slug":"akamai-inks-11-6-bn-seven-year-cloud-infrastructure-deal-with-anthropic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/26\/akamai-inks-11-6-bn-seven-year-cloud-infrastructure-deal-with-anthropic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Akamai inks $11.6 bn seven-year cloud infrastructure deal with Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Cybersecurity and cloud provider Akamai Technologies on Friday said it expanded its strategic partnership with AI safety and research company Anthropic with an $11.6 billion contractual commitment over seven years, according to a company statement. <\/p>\n<p>The companies estimated the total capital expenditures (Capex) related to the commitment at approximately $5.5 billion over the contract period. <\/p>\n<p>Akamai said it anticipates no impact on its 2026 revenue guidance, while projecting an increase of approximately $1.7 billion in 2026 capital expenditures to pre-purchase critical supply chain components, including memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Cybersecurity and cloud provider Akamai Technologies on Friday said it expanded its strategic partnership with AI safety and research company Anthropic with an $11.6 billion contractual commitment over seven years, according to a company statement. The companies estimated the total capital expenditures (Capex) related to the commitment at approximately $5.5 billion over the contract period. Akamai said it anticipates no impact on its 2026 revenue guidance, while projecting an increase of approximately $1.7 billion in 2026 capital expenditures to pre-purchase critical supply chain components, including memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038746,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038745\/revisions\/1038746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}