Nscale in talks to sell about $45B of computing power to Anthropic
nmasc_ · x · 2026-10-20
AI cloud firm Nscale is in talks to supply computing power to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth roughly $45 billion, according to people familiar with the negotiations reported by Bloomberg's BTLipschultz. It would be another massive compute scoop for Nscale and one of the largest AI compute deals ever, underscoring frontier labs' surging demand for training and inference capacity. Terms and timing remain unsettled as talks continue.
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