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Anthropic in Talks for a Second $45 Billion Nscale Deal: What It Means

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Original editorial illustration of a vast AI data-center campus at dusk in West Virginia hills, glowing server halls, substation and transmission lines in the foreground, satellite trail overhead, teal-and-amber tech-editorial style

One week after Microsoft walked away from Nscale’s UK data center because the site could not get electricity, Anthropic is reportedly about to double down on the same company. Bloomberg reported on October 19 that Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic another roughly $45 billion of AI computing power — a second deal on … Read more

Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale UK Data Center Deal: Why It Matters

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Original editorial illustration of a half-built AI data center with dark unpowered server halls and a disconnected high-voltage power line against a gray sky

Microsoft has walked away from the site that was supposed to house the United Kingdom’s largest AI supercomputer. The Telegraph reported on October 18 that Microsoft ended its agreement to be the anchor customer at Nscale’s planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex — a £2 billion project meant to host more than 23,000 Nvidia … Read more