Nscale, Anthropic in talks for $45 billion cloud computing deal, Bloomberg News reports

Oct 19 (Reuters) Nscale is in talks to sell computing power to ​AI lab Anthropic ‌in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing ‌people ​familiar with ⁠the negotiations. The Nvidia-backed ⁠AI cloud computing firm and data center developer is seeking another major deal ​with the Claude maker for a second ⁠facility at ⁠its Monarch data center ​campus in West Virginia, ​according to the report. Nscale and ‌Anthropic did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. Reuters could ⁠not independently verify the report. The news comes after Microsoft pulled out ⁠of ‌a deal to ⁠anchor a flagship ​data ‌center for Nscale after ​power connection ⁠delays pushed its expected supply date into the 2030s. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by ​Pooja Desai)