Anthropic was going to rent power for its data centers, then decided to spend $3.4 billion buying the generators
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The big picture: AI companies usually rent their power rather than own the machines that generate it. Anthropic was planning such a deal with a supplier in Texas, too. But the Claude maker reportedly scrapped that plan and went after the supplier's generators instead. It agreed to pay roughly $3.4 billion to take them over. That's enough gas-fired equipment to produce 1.7 gigawatts of power.
The deal makes it the largest known purchase of power-generation gear by any AI lab, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic signed the agreement back in late September with San Antonio-based supplier OnePWR Solutions. OnePWR had ordered the generators from Caterpillar about two years earlier, but it was still short on the financing needed to complete the purchase.
Along with the hardware, the company picked up the...
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