In a significant development bridging AI and crypto mining infrastructure, AI lab Anthropic has sealed a six-year, $10 billion deal for cloud computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings, with the services hosted in a Norway data center operated in partnership with Bitcoin mining firm Bitdeer Technologies. The announcement confirms earlier reports that Volta had secured a $10 billion agreement with an unnamed AI laboratory; today the customer was revealed as Anthropic.
The facility will deliver 133 megawatts of computing power and will be equipped with Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chips, underscoring the convergence of high-performance AI compute and blockchain mining infrastructure. Bitdeer's involvement highlights how Bitcoin miners are increasingly repurposing their energy-intensive data centers for AI workloads, a trend that could provide new revenue streams and improve the economics of large-scale mining operations. The deal marks the latest expansion of Anthropic's compute resources as demand for its Claude models surges, alongside recent partnerships with SpaceX, Advanced Micro Devices, and Akamai Technologies.
