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AI company Anthropic signs lease to open data center in Kentucky
Anthropic signs a 20-year lease for 401MW data center capacity at TeraWulf's Justified Data campus in Kentucky, expected to generate $19 billion in contracted revenue and reach full capacity by early 2028. This signals major infrastructure investment by a leading AI company outside traditional tech hubs.
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The Wire takeaway
Major AI frontier lab committing 401MW+ and $19B over 20 years signals sustained compute-intensive workload demand; founders in AI, inference, or power-adjacent verticals should track similar infrastructure partnerships as bellwether for market scale and power constraint patterns.
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Topics: AI Infrastructure · data-center-expansion · compute-infrastructure · anthropic-capex · power-sourcing · ai-workloads · long-term-contracts