{
  "id": 3553920,
  "title": "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)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/sources-anthropic-has-agreed-to-pay-nscale-45b-over-six-years-to-rent",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-26T17:30:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/anthropic-to-pay-nscale-45-billion-for-ai-computing-power"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45 billion over six years to rent about 460 megawatts of power at a West Virginia data center. The data center will use Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. This amount of power could supply around 345,000 US homes at any one time, according to Investing.com.\n\nThe deal is part of Anthropic's efforts to secure capacity ahead of a planned initial public offering. The company, which created the Claude AI assistant, has signed several computing deals recently, including agreements with Fluidstack, Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., and SpaceX.\n\nThe West Virginia data center is part of Nscale's Monarch campus, which will total about 1.35 gigawatts when complete. The cost of developing the entire campus and on-site power plant is estimated at around $71 billion, with $47 billion going toward AI chips.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 (Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/sources-some-of-nvidias-top-customers-have-been-told-that-prices-will",
        "published": "2026-08-22T19:00:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/sources-nvidia-is-in-talks-to-invest-in-perplexity-valuing-it-at-30b",
        "published": "2026-08-24T03:50:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}