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Less than a third of the campus cost

Anthropic's newest $45 billion compute deal costs less than a third of what it takes to build the whole campus it sits on.

“Anthropic signed a $45 billion, six-year compute deal with Nscale for 460MW of power using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips.”

Bloomberg (unnamed sources), relayed by Yahoo Finance/Investing.com; corroborated by an Aker ASA (Nscale investor) regulatory disclosure that does not name the customer, 26 August 2026

Recorded 28 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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7 receipts: 2 support the claim, 0 contradict it, 5 add context. 4 figures on the record, 3 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Supports the claimfinance.yahoo.com ↗

    Anthropic PBC has agreed to spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale's data center development in West Virginia, Bloomberg reported

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  2. 2Contextfinance.yahoo.com ↗

    Microsoft Corp. had signed a letter of intent for the West Virginia site in March but walked away earlier in the summer, allowing Anthropic to become the tenant

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  3. 3Contextfinance.yahoo.com ↗

    Developing the entire campus and on-site power plant will cost about $71 billion, with $47 billion of that going toward AI chips

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  4. 4Contextcnbc.com ↗

    Anthropic tells investors annualized revenue run rate climbed to $65 billion in July

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  5. 5Contextbenzinga.com ↗

    Nvidia's Vera Rubin Hardware Rollout May Be Slightly Delayed

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  6. 6Contextdealroom.co ↗

    Nscale eyes September US IPO on $51B AI contract backlog

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  7. 7Supports the claimfinance.yahoo.com ↗

    Nscale will use Nvidia Corp.'s Vera Rubin chips to meet Anthropic's needs, with the chips expected to start coming online late next year

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