Claude is getting extra firepower. Anthropic, the San Francisco AI lab behind the chatbot, has struck a multiyear deal to run parts of its production workloads on CoreWeave's GPU cloud, giving the company more room to grow while it builds out its own data centers. The companies plan a phased rollout that is expected to bring CoreWeave racks and Nvidia-powered servers online later this year to help handle rising enterprise demand.
According to The Mercury News, which carried reporting from Bloomberg, CoreWeave said the arrangement will support Anthropic as it builds and deploys its Claude models, tapping a mix of Nvidia chip architectures spread across U.S. data centers. The outlets reported that Anthropic and CoreWeave declined to share any financial details.
Anthropic's money and buildout
Anthropic has been locking in both capital and compute at a brisk clip. The company disclosed a $30 billion Series G in February and rolled out a $50 billion plan to develop custom U.S. data centers in Texas and New York, according to Anthropic and its infrastructure announcement. Together, the fresh funding, company-owned campuses and outside capacity deals are designed to keep supply steady as Claude's enterprise usage keeps climbing.
CoreWeave's scale and partners
CoreWeave, for its part, ended 2025 with roughly 850 megawatts of active power spread across 43 data centers as it races to bulk up its footprint, according to investor materials. The neocloud operator also deepened a long-term relationship with Meta in a deal that filings and news coverage value at about $21 billion, a contract that helped lift CoreWeave's stock. MarketBeat and Reuters reported those figures.
Why compute tie-ups matter
For AI builders, the question of where training and inference run is not just an IT decision, it is a competitive moat. Anthropic's tie-up with CoreWeave effectively buys the company ready-made serving capacity while its own campuses come together and while it secures additional chip commitments. At the same time, Anthropic expanded its partnership with Google and Broadcom to lock in multiple gigawatts of TPU capacity for future Claude models, underscoring how power, chips and data center real estate now sit at the center of who can scale next-generation AI. TechCrunch has more on the TPU agreement.
On the ground, Anthropic says its U.S. data center program will mean hundreds of permanent roles and thousands of construction jobs as the Texas and New York sites ramp up, and company watchers expect more infrastructure news as additional capacity switches on. Executives at both Anthropic and CoreWeave say this initial rollout could widen over time if demand for Claude keeps surging.
