Anthropic Expands Control Over Computing Power, Seeks to Reduce Reliance on Cloud Providers
Odaily News: Anthropic plans to lease up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity from a data center developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, and is currently in early-stage negotiations. This is one of the major efforts by the AI company to reduce its reliance on cloud service providers.
According to people familiar with the matter, Anthropic has discussed entering facilities developed by Stream Data Centers as a direct tenant and deploying TPUs designed by Broadcom and Google therein. Anthropic is in talks with Stream Data Centers to lease a data center with up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity. Anthropic seeks direct control over computing resources, which could reduce costs. Anthropic has also discussed the possibility of Google providing a credit backstop for the project. It is currently unclear which part of the project Google would provide the backstop for. (Jinshi)

