Anthropic and Nscale strike $45 billion cloud deal, sources say

Anthropic, an AI company, signed a $45 billion deal with Nscale, a UK-based AI infrastructure company, to rent computing capacity (the computational power needed to run software) at a data center in West Virginia that will become operational at the end of 2027. This deal is part of Anthropic's broader effort to address infrastructure strain that has affected the reliability and performance of its Claude AI models, particularly during peak usage times.