Market2026-08-04

Anthropic has reportedly signed a $10 billion, six-year compute deal with Volta, a British AI cloud startup founded earlier in 2026, according to Bloomberg citing anonymous sources. Volta is working with crypto-mining company Bitdeer to build the data center supplying the capacity; the facility will be in Norway with 133 megawatts of capacity and will run Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems. Volta is a member of Nvidia's Cloud Partner program and had previously referred to a deal with an unnamed AI lab. The agreement follows other recent Anthropic compute arrangements, including ones with SpaceX and Amazon, as it expands capacity against competitors. Anthropic had not commented when contacted.

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