Anthropic signs $10B cloud compute deal with AI startup Volta

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has reportedly locked in a $10 billion, six-year cloud compute deal with Volta, an AI cloud startup founded earlier this year. Volta is partnering with crypto miner Bitdeer to build a 133 MW data center in Norway, running Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. Volta had previously teased a deal with an unnamed AI lab; Bloomberg broke the Anthropic name via anonymous sources. TechCrunch has reached out to Anthropic for comment. The deal follows recent compute agreements Anthropic struck with SpaceX and Amazon.

Why it matters: Anthropic locked a six-year $10B compute deal with Volta, a startup founded this year that's building a 133MW Norway data center with Bitdeer using NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips. Three concrete numbers make it substantive and it hits the infra/cost crowd. Not 85+ because Volta hasn'...