Anthropic to buy $3.4bn of gas-fired generators for AI compute

Anthropic has agreed to pay $3.4 billion for 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators, according to the Financial Times. The deal underscores surging energy demands from AI data centres.

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2026-11-08 18:16 · DailyAI
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