Anthropic has secured a six-year cloud compute agreement with startup Volta, utilizing a new data center in Norway powered by Nvidia technology.
Key facts
- •The deal between Anthropic and Volta is valued at $10 billion.
- •The agreement covers a six-year period of cloud compute services.
- •Bitdeer is collaborating with Volta to build a data center in Norway.
- •The facility will feature a 133 megawatt capacity powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems.
- •Volta was founded earlier this year and is part of Nvidia’s Cloud Partner program.
Anthropic has entered into a $10 billion deal with the AI cloud startup Volta. Under the agreement, Volta will provide cloud compute capacity to the developer of Claude over a six-year period.
By the numbers
Infrastructure and Partnerships
Volta is partnering with the crypto-mining company Bitdeer to develop the necessary data center infrastructure. The facility will be located in Norway and is expected to deliver 133 megawatts of capacity. The data center will utilize Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, which is the chipmaker's latest AI chip architecture. Volta is a member of Nvidia’s Cloud Partner program, a consortium of providers that integrate Nvidia GPUs into their data centers.
Anthropic's Expansion Strategy
The deal follows a series of recent compute agreements for Anthropic, which has been seeking to expand its capacity amid competition in the AI sector. The company recently announced similar partnerships with Amazon and SpaceX.
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