Anthropic joins AI's natural gas frenzy with $3.4B turbine purchase
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-11-10
TechCrunch reports that Anthropic has bought roughly $3.4 billion worth of natural gas turbines, joining the industry-wide scramble for power supplies. The deal is large enough that the outlet suggests it could give the company "buyer's remorse," underscoring how far frontier labs will go to lock in energy for compute.
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