Anthropic is in the very early stages of discussing leasing computing power from Meta.. The New York Times and CNBC report that the two businesses are in preliminary discussions, following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s May comments that the company was considering entering the cloud computing business.. – Sebastian Moss.
The deal could be worth as much as $10 billion over two years. Anthropic proposed the idea in June, and the contract would include the ability for either company to pull out over the course of the two years.. In May, Anthropic signed a similar contract with SpaceXAI worth $45 billion over three years for access to the Colossus 1 supercomputer..
That month, Zuckerberg said that the idea of launching a Meta Cloud business was “definitely on the table.”. The company this month hired Dave Brown, a senior vice president at Amazon Web Services. Brown spent 18 years at the company, where he was instrumental in building out its cloud business..
Meta plans to spend as much as $145 billion this year, with a significant portion allocated to AI data centers, more than double the $72 billion it spent last year.. 09 Jun 2026. 23 Mar 2026
