Anthropic signs $10B cloud deal with Volta for Claude AI
Anthropic secures $10B cloud deal with Volta for 133MW Norway data center powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips
Anthropic has inked a massive $10 billion cloud compute deal with Volta, an AI cloud startup founded this year, to power its Claude AI models. The six-year agreement includes the construction of a 133 megawatt data center in Norway, developed in partnership with Bitdeer (a crypto-mining firm) and powered by Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Vera Rubin chips. This facility will integrate into Volta’s existing infrastructure, leveraging Nvidia’s Cloud Partner Program ecosystem of GPU-accelerated AI cloud providers.
The deal underscores Anthropic’s aggressive push to expand its compute capacity amid escalating competition with rivals like OpenAI and Mistral. Recent months have seen Anthropic secure additional compute partnerships with major players like SpaceX and Amazon. By locking in long-term, high-capacity cloud resources, Anthropic aims to bolster its position in the AI infrastructure race while addressing the insatiable demand for training and deploying large models like Claude 3.7.
- Anthropic signed a $10B six-year cloud compute deal with Volta, an AI cloud startup
- The 133MW Norway data center will use Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, developed with Bitdeer
- Anthropic is rapidly expanding compute capacity amid competition with OpenAI, Mistral, and others
Why It Matters
Secures Anthropic's long-term AI compute needs, critical for scaling Claude models and staying competitive in the AI arms race.