# Anthropic Locks in $35 Billion Compute Deal with Nvidia-Backed Lambda

> Anthropic has signed a six-year deal worth 35 billion dollars to buy cloud computing from Lambda, an Nvidia-backed provider, as it races to lock in the raw compute its models need. The capacity will come largely from a new Texas data center that Hut 8 is developing in Nueces County with 350 megawatts of power, and Nvidia, which supplies the chips, reportedly holds the lease on the facility itself. The agreement does not stand alone. It follows a separate 45 billion dollar compute commitment Anthropic struck with EnCore earlier in August, meaning the company has tied up roughly 80 billion dollars in infrastructure spending in a matter of weeks. Deals of this size underline how the AI race has become an arms race for hardware and electricity as much as for algorithms. They also deepen the web of dependencies linking model builders, cloud upstarts and Nvidia, whose chips and capital keep showing up on every side of these transactions.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Bloomberg · Published Wednesday, September 2, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Anthropic has signed a six-year deal worth 35 billion dollars to buy cloud computing from Lambda, an Nvidia-backed provider, as it races to lock in the raw compute its models need. The capacity will come largely from a new Texas data center that Hut 8 is developing in Nueces County with 350 megawatts of power, and Nvidia, which supplies the chips, reportedly holds the lease on the facility itself. The agreement does not stand alone. It follows a separate 45 billion dollar compute commitment Anthropic struck with EnCore earlier in August, meaning the company has tied up roughly 80 billion dollars in infrastructure spending in a matter of weeks. Deals of this size underline how the AI race has become an arms race for hardware and electricity as much as for algorithms. They also deepen the web of dependencies linking model builders, cloud upstarts and Nvidia, whose chips and capital keep showing up on every side of these transactions.

## Source

[Read the full story at Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/anthropic-seals-35-billion-cloud-deal-with-nvidia-backed-lambda)

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