Are Nscale and Anthropic negotiating a new $45 billion compute deal?

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Bloomberg reported on October 19, citing people familiar with the negotiations, that Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic computing power in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion, for a second facility at its Monarch campus in West Virginia; neither company has announced a deal.

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  1. Reported

    Bloomberg's X account posts the report that Nscale is in talks to sell computing power to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion, citing people familiar with the negotiations.

  2. Reported

    Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the negotiations, reports that Nvidia-backed Nscale is in talks to sell computing power to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion, for a second facility at its Monarch data center campus in West Virginia. Anthropic already has agreements with Nscale worth as much as about $44.6 billion, according to Nscale's IPO filing.

    Source: Bloomberg
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No. Neither Nscale and Anthropic nor Anthropic has confirmed it as of Oct 21.
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