Anthropic signs $10 billion six-year compute deal with Nvidia-backed cloud startup Volta
August 4-5: Anthropic signed a six-year $10 billion compute agreement with Volta Infra to use its Norwegian data centers for Claude, as Volta raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation.
August 4-5, multiple media outlets reported that Anthropic signed a six-year, $10 billion compute agreement with Nvidia-backed cloud startup Volta Infra to use its Norwegian data centers for Claude compute.
Concurrently, Volta Infra raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation. The round was jointly led by several institutions, with Nvidia among the company's early backers. The deal reflects Nvidia's strategy of building deeper ecosystem moats in next-generation AI cloud providers through capital and technology ties.
This partnership is part of Anthropic's multi-channel compute expansion. Combined with the previously disclosed Google chip lease financing and long-standing AWS partnership, Anthropic is building a multi-source compute supply system at a scale of tens of billions of dollars per year to meet Claude's rapidly growing training and inference demand.