Anthropic
ORGANISATIONContracting
- Offtaker, never developer of record
- Dominant route: Fluidstack signs the lease, Google LLC backstops it
- One direct lease: TeraWulf Kentucky, 401 MW, 20 yr + 2x5, unnamed investment grade credit
- Compute offtake with AWS, Google and Broadcom, Azure, CoreWeave, SpaceX Colossus
- Non investment grade by its own Australia tender documents
- Chips financed off balance sheet: Apollo led XPV platform, Broadcom residual value support
- Rent band on filed leases $1.84M to $2.37M per IT MW per yr; 10 to 25 yr; NNN or modified gross, 3% escalator
- Power pass through at cost, take or pay 6 yr (Kentucky PSC)
Design
- Multi silicon: Trainium, TPU, NVIDIA GB300 and Vera Rubin
- Throughput per watt first; direct to chip liquid; prefabricated cooling skids
- Redundancy chosen per cost: N+1, 2N or block redundant
- Issues its own basis of design with AMR and network block MW (Vertiv, 21 Sep)
- Final day chip fixed at PO with NVIDIA (Vertiv, 21 Sep)
- No loop temperatures, PUE or WUE published
People
- Tom Brown, Chief Compute Officer
- James Bradbury, Head of Compute
- Krishna Rao, CFO, signs compute commitments
- Tim Hughes, Head of Energy, Leasing and Land
- Winnie Leung, Head of Data Centre Infrastructure
- Liwen Mao, Data Centre Design Lead
| Who | Kind | What they said |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Searra, MicroLink 14 Sep | Commercial | We chatted to Anthropic and Anthropic were like, can you turn on 100 megawatts by the end of next year? |
| Adviser, White Rose Capital Group 4 Sep | Commercial | Anthropic flagged as a potential customer for the 1.25 MW scale, with the social impact angle relevant to their positioning. |
capital programme, markets next, markets present
domain
last touch
people addressed
org_people, organisations.created_at, Binky Deal Architecture; Granola 15 to 22 Sep 2026, Past chats, Jun and Jul 2026, Lex and Nick chat, 22 Sep 2026, MicroLink Ohio One, Vertiv, 21 Sep 2026; Lex and Nick chat, 22 Sep 2026, Granola 21 and 22 Sep 2026; Loom deals, Granola 18 to 22 Sep 2026; Binky, Granola 21 and 22 Sep 2026; Mansfield email chat, Jun 2026, Anthropic Design And Contracting B report, 22 Sep 2026; Binky, Binky Deal Architecture and What Anthropic Prioritizes; Jaroslav and Nick Chat, 15 Sep 2026, SEC filings via Binky, Binky Deal Architecture and digest, Binky, What Anthropic Prioritizes, Loom organisations row, Jaroslav and Nick Chat, 15 Sep 2026, Binky digest; July 2026 Anthropic chat, Binky; Catch up, 18 Sep 2026, Binky digest; CNBC 23 Apr 2026 via Binky, Binky, 400 MW Anthropic Style Campus Reference, Binky, AFR via Binky digest, MicroLink Ohio One, 21 Sep 2026