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Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg : Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips Anthropic PBC has agreed to spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale's flagship data center deve…

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  1. 2026-08-26 17:30 · Techmeme
    Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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