Anthropic in talks for another $45B compute deal with Nscale at West Virginia campus
firstadopter · x · 2026-10-20
Bloomberg reports that Nvidia-backed AI cloud firm Nscale is in talks to sell roughly $45 billion worth of compute to Anthropic, building a second facility at its Monarch data center campus in West Virginia. This comes on top of existing agreements worth up to $44.6 billion disclosed in Nscale's IPO filing. The poster mocks ongoing 'Anthropic and neoclouds are doomed' takes as the company's compute ramp keeps accelerating.
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