Nscale, Anthropic In Talks For New $45 Billion AI Cloud Deal

October 20, 2026

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nscale is in talks to sell AI computing power to Claude maker Anthropic in a new deal that could be worth about $45 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. The data center developer is seeking another major deal with the AI lab for a second facility at its Monarch data center campus in West Virginia, the person said. In August, Anthropic struck a deal to spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale’s West Virginia data center campus. A second Monarch building would deliver 460 megawatts of computing power using Nvidia’s advanced Vera Rubin AI chips, according to the source. […] According to the Nscale prospectus, Microsoft and Anthropic are expected to be the company’s major customers in the future. Further reading: Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up