Spend $19 billion

Spend $19 billion! AI giant Anthropic has been renting data centers for 20 years. Rising artificial intelligence star Anthropic officially announced today that it plans to open a new large-scale data center in Hawesville, Kentucky. To this end, the company has signed a 20-year building lease agreement with computing infrastructure giant TeraWulf. Hawesville is about an hour's drive from Louisville and has a very strategic location. The smooth finalization of this project marks that the technology unicorn, which is world-famous for its Claude artificial intelligence engine, is accelerating its layout of underlying computing power. The super computing center is unprecedented in scale. According to TeraWulf, the company that owns the center, the power generation capacity of this computing infrastructure is expected to reach approximately 400 megawatts by 2027. Such a large scale of power supply can provide strong energy guarantee for Anthropic to train and run higher-order AI models in the future. In terms of commercial returns, the 20-year lease agreement will bring TeraWulf up to approximately $19 billion in contracted lease revenue over the initial term. This not only validates the company's energy development strategy, but also lays a solid foundation for its further expansion in the future. Paul Prager, chairman and CEO of TeraWulf, said that establishing a long-term cooperation with one of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies has brought it an extremely stable source of income. It also demonstrates the company's ability to acquire core energy, develop infrastructure and secure long-term customer commitments. As the global artificial intelligence competition enters a fierce stage, computing power and energy have already become battlegrounds for major manufacturers. Anthropic’s locking of the core computing power infrastructure through long-term leases will undoubtedly inject a boost to the continued evolution of its Claude series of AI engines. via AI News (author: AI Base)