Anthropic Signs $10 Billion Deal With Volta for Norway AI Data Center Powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin Chips

Aug 05, 2026
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Summary

Anthropic signs a massive $10 billion, six-year cloud compute deal with AI startup Volta to build a 133-megawatt data center in Norway powered by Nvidia's cutting-edge Vera Rubin chips, as the AI company aggressively expands its infrastructure amid fierce industry competition.

Key Points

  • Anthropic signs a reported $10 billion, six-year cloud compute deal with AI cloud startup Volta, which will build a 133-megawatt data center in Norway powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chip architecture.
  • Crypto-mining company Bitdeer is partnering with Volta to develop the data center infrastructure, and Volta operates within Nvidia's Cloud Partner program, a network of AI cloud providers using Nvidia GPUs.
  • Anthropic is aggressively expanding its compute capacity amid fierce competition, having also recently secured new compute deals with SpaceX and Amazon.

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