Anthropic Signs $10 Billion Deal with AI Cloud Startup Volta
Anthropic locks in $10B, six-year compute deal with Volta, backed by Nvidia Vera Rubin chips in a Norway data center.
Anthropic locks in $10B, six-year compute deal with Volta, backed by Nvidia Vera Rubin chips in a Norway data center.
Anthropic's compute acquisition push continues with a reported $10 billion, six-year agreement with recently founded cloud provider Volta. The 133 MW Norwegian facility—co-developed with crypto-mining firm Bitdeer—will run on Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chip architecture. The deal follows separate agreements with Amazon and SpaceX, signaling that frontier AI labs are racing to lock up next-generation infrastructure before rivals can. Volta is part of Nvidia's Cloud Partner program. **Watch:** How quickly Volta can bring 133 MW online will reveal whether new entrants can close the supply gap legacy hyperscalers have failed to fill.
Watch: Whether Volta's Norway facility delivers on timeline—its success would validate a new class of Nvidia-backed AI cloud challengers over established hyperscalers.
In Brief Posted: 12:48 PM PDT · August 4, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta. Bloomberg originally reported that Volta, founded earlier this year, will provide cloud compute to the Claude maker over a six-year period. Volta has a partner in this deal, Bitdeer, a crypto-mining company that will help develop the data center to provide the compute capacity. That facility will be located in Norway, and will deliver an 133 megawatt capacity. It will be fueled by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, the chipmaker’s state-of-the-art AI chip architecture. Volta is part of Nvidia’s Cloud Partner program, which is a consortium of AI cloud providers who use Nvidia’s GPUs in their data centers. Volta had spoken about a deal with an AI lab but hadn’t named the specific company it was working with. Bloomberg originally cited anonymous sources familiar with the deal. TechCrunch reached out to Anthropic for more information. Anthropic has sought to aggressively expand its compute capacity over the last several months as it wages a corporate battle with its competitors. The company also recently announced new compute deals with the likes of SpaceX and Amazon. Topics Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Latest in AI
- 01Anthropic's compute acquisition push continues with a reported $10 billion, six-year agreement with recently founded cloud provider Volta.
- 02The 133 MW Norwegian facility—co-developed with crypto-mining firm Bitdeer—will run on Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chip architecture.
- 03The deal follows separate agreements with Amazon and SpaceX, signaling that frontier AI labs are racing to lock up next-generation infrastructure before rivals can.
- 04Volta is part of Nvidia's Cloud Partner program.
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