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[^2]\n\nAccording to an AFP count, the only published contracts for Anthropic exceed $130 billion in total value, while the company's valuation approaches $1 trillion ahead of a potential autumn IPO. [^3]\n\nAnthropic also signed a separate contract worth approximately $45 billion over six weeks with the British company Nscale, also supported by Nvidia, for a site in West Virginia. [^4]\n\nThe six-year contract covers a data center in Texas where Lambda will install servers equipped with Nvidia chips to lease to Anthropic in response to growing demand for Claude. [^5]\n\nAnthropic recently agreed to invest $45 billion to lease capacity from Nscale in West Virginia and signed cloud service agreements worth $50 billion with Fluidstack Ltd. and $45 billion with SpaceX. [^6]\n\nHut 8 is developing the data center in Nueces County, Texas, as part of the project, while Nvidia will serve as the lessee of the facility. [^7]\n\nThe deal is part of Anthropic's infrastructure push ahead of its planned IPO, following a $45 billion contract with Nscale for a data center in West Virginia announced the previous week. [^8]\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia itself holds the lease for the data center, which is being developed by Hut 8, a former crypto mining company. [^9]\n\nNvidia agreed to invest $3.5 billion in MediaTek Inc., marking its largest direct investment outside the United States. [^10]\n\nAnthropic's added capacity is meant to keep up with growing demand for its AI model Claude and its coding tool Claude Code. 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