7:01 PM ET · Oct 19

Nscale in talks to sell Anthropic another $45 billion in AI computing power

Nvidia-backed Nscale is negotiating a second deal worth about $45 billion to supply Anthropic with computing power from a second building at its Monarch data center campus in West Virginia, Bloomberg first reported and a person familiar with the matter later told Reuters. The new building would deliver about 460 megawatts using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, and an agreement could come within days. It would follow Anthropic's $45 billion Nscale deal in August, and comes shortly after Microsoft pulled out of anchoring Nscale's flagship UK data center over grid power delays.

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Nscale, the AI cloud computing firm, is in talks to sell computing power to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion, according to people familiar with the negotiations
— Bloomberg (@business) Oct 19, 2026

NSCALE AND ANTHROPIC ARE IN TALKS FOR A $45 BLN CLOUD COMPUTING DEAL THAT MAY HAPPEN AS SOON AS THE COMING DAYS, WITH ANTHROPIC ALSO IN TALKS FOR A SECOND BUILDING AT NSCALE’S MONARCH, WHOSE MONARCH 2 BUILDING IS SAID TO DELIVER 460 MW OF COMPUTE POWER
— First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) Oct 19, 2026

Anthropic and Nscale in talks for second multibillion-dollar deal
— Financial Times (@FT) Oct 19, 2026

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