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Anthropic strikes about $3.4 billion generator deal, media report says

The AI startup bought commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of generators from Texas-based OnePWR Solutions, according to a media report.

Industrial power generators beside a data center
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Anthropic has agreed to a transaction valued at about $3.4 billion for gas-fired generators to power its data centers, according to a November 8 media report. The arrangement includes capabilities to engineer and build the installations.

The company purchased commitments in late September covering 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty generators supplied by OnePWR Solutions, an equipment provider based in San Antonio, Texas, the report said.

The transaction was not an acquisition of OnePWR, and no employees moved from the supplier to Anthropic, the report said, citing someone familiar with the matter. Neither company responded to requests for comment.

Demand for Anthropic's Claude AI models has driven the startup to obtain more computing resources and power capacity. A separate media report in September said Anthropic expected infrastructure spending for AI to exceed $500 billion over the next 10 years.

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