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Nscale Negotiates $45B Deal for Second Anthropic Monarch

By Drooid · Oct 20, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

Nscale is negotiating a $45 billion computing-capacity deal with Anthropic.
The deal would add a second Monarch building delivering 460 MW using Nvidia Vera Rubin chips.
Anthropic already signed a $44.6 billion infrastructure agreement for the first Monarch facility.
Combined contracts would total roughly $90 billion, making it Nscale’s largest partnership.
Anthropic holds a right of first refusal on a planned third Monarch building.

History

Historical Context

Microsoft’s 2019 $1 billion investment in OpenAI built on its 2014 cloud-first shift under Satya Nadella and earlier clean-energy moves, such as the 2013 Texas wind purchase after Greenpeace warned data centers used about 2 % of global electricity in 2011. The current $45 billion Nscale-Anthropic talks extend that cloud-centric, compute-driven model toward private-sector dominance.

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Story summary

Nscale is negotiating a $45 billion computing-capacity deal with Anthropic.
The deal would add a second Monarch building delivering 460 MW using Nvidia Vera Rubin chips.
Anthropic already signed a $44.6 billion infrastructure agreement for the first Monarch facility.
Combined contracts would total roughly $90 billion, making it Nscale’s largest partnership.
Anthropic holds a right of first refusal on a planned third Monarch building.

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