Anthropic commits $11.6B over seven years to Akamai for agent CPU workloads
VraserX · x · 2026-09-27
Anthropic has reportedly committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai for CPU workloads.
The author argues this is a costly reminder that AI agents need ordinary computing too — running code, operating browsers, moving data — and that these ongoing costs after the model decides what to do are likely underestimated across the industry.
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