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Anthropic Taps Google Cloud for Up to 1 Million TPUs in Deal Worth Tens of Billions

Anthropic keeps a multi‑cloud approach with Amazon as its primary training partner to meet fast‑rising enterprise demand.

Overview

  • The agreement grants Anthropic access to as many as one million Google TPUs, bringing well over a gigawatt of AI compute online in 2026.
  • Google Cloud highlighted TPUs’ price‑performance and efficiency, with CEO Thomas Kurian citing Anthropic’s years of experience training and serving models on the chips.
  • Anthropic says it will continue to run workloads across Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, and Nvidia GPUs, retaining control over model weights, pricing, and customer data.
  • Amazon remains the primary training partner through Project Rainier, a multi‑data‑center supercomputer using hundreds of thousands of Trainium chips.
  • Anthropic reports an annual revenue run rate approaching $7 billion and more than 300,000 business customers, as industry estimates peg 1‑gigawatt builds near $50 billion with about $35 billion for chips.