--- title: Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale for West... description: Anthropic has committed $45 billion over six years to Nscale for AI computing capacity at a West Virginia data center campus, covering about 460 megawatts of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-nscale-for-west-virginia-data-center-pavyswgxg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale for West Virginia data center | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic has committed $45 billion over six years to Nscale for AI computing capacity at a West Virginia data center campus, covering about 460 megawatts of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-nscale-for-west-virginia-data-center-pavyswgxg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PAvYSWgxg.png og:image:alt: Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale for West Virginia data center og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale for West Virginia data center **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic has committed $45 billion over six years to Nscale for AI computing capacity at a West Virginia data center campus, covering about 460 megawatts of power built on Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin chips. Nscale, a two-year-old London company preparing for a US IPO as soon as next month, now counts this as the largest deal in its $51 billion contracted revenue backlog, despite reporting only about $100 million in revenue last quarter. Microsoft had previously signed a letter of intent for the same site in March but walked away over the summer. The full 1.35 gigawatt campus is projected to cost roughly $71 billion, with $47 billion earmarked for chips. Anthropic, valued at $61 billion as of May, is reportedly preparing for its own IPO. ## Content Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years for AI computing capacity at the British company's West Virginia data center campus. The deal covers roughly 460 megawatts of power using Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin chips, with capacity expected to start coming online in late 2027. At around $7.5B per year on average, Anthropic is renting rather than buying hardware outright — a bet on locking in scarce compute, power, and cooling capacity ahead of continued demand for Claude. The company already spreads workloads across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and Nvidia GPUs, so this adds another leg to that multi-supplier strategy. For Nscale, the deal is transformative. The London-based company was founded in 2024 and is now preparing for a US IPO as soon as next month. The $45B commitment becomes the largest entry in its $51B contracted revenue backlog, against roughly $100M booked in a recent quarter. Developing the full 1.35 gigawatt West Virginia campus is estimated to cost about $71B, with $47B of that going to chips alone. Microsoft had signed a letter of intent for the same site in March but walked away over the summer. The deal comes as Anthropic itself — valued at $61.5B in May — is reportedly preparing for its own IPO. ## Questions this post answers ### How much did Anthropic agree to pay Nscale for AI computing capacity in West Virginia? Anthropic agreed to pay Nscale $45 billion over six years for AI computing capacity at Nscale's flagship data center campus in West Virginia. The deal covers roughly 460 megawatts of power and will run on Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin chips. It is the largest entry in Nscale's $51 billion contracted revenue backlog, despite the company reporting only about $100 million in revenue last quarter. _Engineers evaluating compute providers can follow deals like this shaping AI infrastructure supply on daily.dev._ ### Why did Microsoft walk away from the West Virginia AI data center site? Microsoft signed a letter of intent for the West Virginia site in March but withdrew over the summer, before Anthropic later signed its own $45 billion deal with Nscale for the same campus. The full 1.35 gigawatt site is estimated to cost around $71 billion to develop, with $47 billion of that going toward chips alone. _Anyone tracking which cloud and AI providers control compute capacity can follow this on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#ai-infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-infrastructure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-nscale-for-west-virginia-data-center-pavyswgxg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale for West Virginia data center","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-nscale-for-west-virginia-data-center-pavyswgxg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-nscale-for-west-virginia-data-center-pavyswgxg"},"datePublished":"2026-08-26T17:47:23.691Z","dateModified":"2026-08-28T12:33:52.474Z","description":"Anthropic has committed $45 billion over six years to Nscale for AI computing capacity at a West Virginia data center campus, covering about 460 megawatts of...","image":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HQqoYEnWoAA2VW6.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HQqoYEnWoAA2VW6.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Collections","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Collections","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--fk_6ycEi--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780996001/logos/collections?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-nscale-for-west-virginia-data-center-pavyswgxg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"nvidia,anthropic,ai-infrastructure","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Collections","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale for West Virginia data center"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-signs-45b-compute-deal-with-nscale-for-west-virginia-data-center-pavyswgxg#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How much did Anthropic agree to pay Nscale for AI computing capacity in West Virginia?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Anthropic agreed to pay Nscale $45 billion over six years for AI computing capacity at Nscale's flagship data center campus in West Virginia. 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