Anthropic Seeks Direct Data Center Leases After $531 Billion Compute Push

Anthropic is pursuing direct data center leases after signing $531 billion in compute deals over 11 months, a move that could give the Claude maker more control over chip supply, pricing and the infrastructure behind its frontier AI systems. The effort would mark a deeper step into the physical buildout of AI capacity, beyond renting servers and capacity through cloud and specialist compute providers.