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Anthropic has decided the power grid will not be ready in time.
Nvidia's board, meanwhile, has decided it needs outside lawyers.
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Source: National Technology
WHAT HAPPENED
The Financial Times reported over the weekend that Anthropic has agreed to buy $3.4 billion of gas power generation equipment for its data centres. The seller is OnePWR Solutions, a Texas supplier that had already ordered the generators from Caterpillar and needed financing to pay for them. Anthropic took over those orders and now buys from Caterpillar directly, along with the engineering and construction skills to install them. Neither company has confirmed the deal in public.
WHY IT MATTERS
Every argument about whether AI can keep scaling has quietly turned into an argument about electricity, and the grid is the one part nobody can order faster. Buying generators outright is what a company does when it has stopped believing the utility queue will clear in time. The limit on the next generation of models is no longer chips, it is a connection to the grid.
OUR TAKE
The obvious read is that this is a hedge, a backup plan in case the utilities turn out slow. We think it is the opposite, and the giveaway is that Anthropic bought the installation expertise and not just the hardware. Nobody buys a construction capability for a contingency. You buy it because running off the grid is the plan.
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Source: CBS News
The board says nothing was compromised. It is hiring outside counsel anyway.
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Anthropic is buying generators. Nvidia's board is hiring lawyers. A Linux project is rewriting its licence, and a senator is rewriting labour law.
Not one of today's stories is about a model. All of them are about AI.
The bottleneck stopped being code a while ago. It is wires and lawyers now.
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