Nscale signs $45 billion deal to power Anthropic data center
London-based Nscale agreed to a six-year, $45 billion contract to provide Nvidia Vera Rubin-powered computing at the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, with chip deployment slated to begin in late 2027. The deal will support a roughly 460-megawatt facility, about the electricity to run 345,000 U.S. homes, and targets agentic AI workloads that are highly compute intensive. Nscale also has a prior Microsoft commitment for up to 1.35 gigawatts at the same site and plans large Vera Rubin deployments in Europe, underscoring a widening infrastructure arms race for frontier AI capacity.
Anthropic committed $45 billion for 460 megawatts of AI compute capacity
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Nscale previously secured a Microsoft commitment for up to 1.35 gigawatts at the same site. Anthropic signed a six-year deal and deployment is due to begin in late 2027, and the site could exceed one gigawatt.
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