Anthropic Buys $3.4 Billion Gas Generators to Power AI Data Centers

Anthropic has agreed to a $3.4 billion deal to buy 1.7GW of Caterpillar gas generators for its AI data centers, the largest known power equipment purchase by an AI lab, per the Financial Times. The move underscores massive energy infrastructure spending in the AI compute race.

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