Anthropic agrees to pay Nscale $45 billion for AI compute lease

Anthropic agrees to pay Nscale $45 billion for AI compute lease

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2026-08-26 17:18:43
Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45 billion over the next six years to lease about 460 megawatts of AI computing capacity at the Monarch data center in West Virginia. Nscale plans to deploy Nvidia Vera Rubin chips at the site, with the project expected to go live by the end of next year. The data center had originally been slated for Microsoft as a tenant, but Anthropic took over that role after Microsoft withdrew. The deal ties Anthropic to a large-scale infrastructure buildout and sets out the hardware and timeline already disclosed in the source report. No additional terms were disclosed in the brief. This remains a technology infrastructure development involving Anthropic, Nscale, Nvidia hardware, and a West Virginia data center project.

Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45 billion over the next six years to lease about 460 megawatts of AI computing capacity at Nscale’s Monarch data center in West Virginia, according to ChainCatcher.

Nscale will use Nvidia Vera Rubin chips for the project, which is expected to come online by the end of next year.

The project had originally been planned for Microsoft as the tenant. After Microsoft withdrew, Anthropic became the tenant.

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