Anthropic signs $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda: Report
The six-year agreement expands Anthropic’s access to Nvidia chips as demand for its Claude AI pushes the company toward more than $135 billion in computing deals.
- On Monday, Anthropic signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda to expand AI capacity and meet growing demand for its Claude chatbot.
- Infrastructure company Hut 8 is developing the Texas data center for the project, located in Nueces County, where Nvidia will hold the lease on capacity.
- Anthropic has rapidly secured major cloud capacity agreements in recent months, including $45 billion with Nscale in West Virginia, $50 billion with Fluidstack, and $45 billion with SpaceX.
- These agreements position Anthropic as one of the most significant customers for data center power, with each deal consistently tied to Nvidia, the leading provider of AI chips.
- Lambda, which raised more than $1.5 billion in a 2025 funding round, is now raising up to $3 billion while targeting a valuation exceeding $12 billion, Bloomberg reported.
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The AI boom is driving up the demand for computing power. Anthropic is expanding its capacities for AI assistant Claude. The company is now to pay several billion dollars to a partner of Nvidia.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the 31st (local time), citing sources familiar with the matter, that Antropic has signed a $35 billion (approximately 47.9 trillion won) cloud computing contract with Lambda, a cloud startup that received investment from NVIDIA. Accordingly, backed by NVIDIA, Antropic will [utilize] computing at the data center in Nuesis County, Texas, operated by Lambda.
The creator of AI Claude's assistant, Anthropic, has entered into a six-year contract for $35 billion to lease computing power from Lambda, according to a source close to the file. The latter is an IT service provider supported by Nvidia.
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