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Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
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Anthropic signed a reported $10 billion, six-year deal with Volta, a newly founded AI cloud startup, to supply cloud compute capacity from a Norway data center built with crypto-mining company Bitdeer.
The deal shows Anthropic pursuing unconventional infrastructure partnerships to secure compute at scale, contracting with a startup that itself depends on a crypto miner to build the facility. For engineers, this signals that AI compute procurement is fragmenting beyond major cloud providers into layered, specialized arrangements.
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Volta, founded earlier in 2026, will provide Anthropic with cloud compute over six years in a deal reportedly worth $10 billion.
The compute will come from a Norway data center delivering 133 megawatts, built by Bitdeer and powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems.
Anthropic has recently announced compute deals with SpaceX and Amazon as well, indicating an aggressive diversification strategy for infrastructure.
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