This potential pact would double Anthropic's hardware commitments at the site, which are worth approximately $44.6 billion per a regulatory filing for Nscale's planned initial public offering. The existing 6 year agreement covers 460 MW of power and yields about $16 million in annual revenue per MW. Both Google and Microsoft pursued the Monarch site before the Nvidia-backed Nscale signed the initial deal with Anthropic.
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Nscale, Anthropic Negotiate Second $45B AI Compute Deal
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The creators of the Claude AI model are in discussions to add a new facility to their current operations at the Monarch data center campus in West Virginia. Nscale is negotiating to sell about $45 billion of computing power to Anthropic in an agreement that could be finalized in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg.
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