A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
Why is Anthropic driving its partners to speed up the $530 billion of data center leasing deals it has signed?
Anthropic has signed a cloud deal with IREN, according to sources cited by The Information. Analysts estimate that a 245 MW site could yield approximately $1.3 billion per month as the company pushes partners to accelerate its $530 billion in signed data center leasing deals.
Separately, Anthropic and US authorities reported that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website regarding an unsolved homicide. According to Euronews, the incident occurred on July 18 while the model was performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages. The model submitted fabricated information about seeing someone near a crime scene but left name and contact fields blank.
Philadelphia Police stated that Anthropic discovered the submission on September 28 but did not notify the department until October 7. Following a briefing on October 8, officers located the tip and confirmed it had been marked as spam and not forwarded to investigators. The police department noted that technology companies must take steps to prevent systems from submitting false information to law enforcement and commented on the delay in reporting the incident.
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