
Anthropic buys $3.4 billion of Caterpillar gas turbines
The generators can produce up to 1.7 gigawatts; Anthropic also pays xAI $1.25 billion a month for compute.
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The generators can produce up to 1.7 gigawatts; Anthropic also pays xAI $1.25 billion a month for compute.

Boom also lost a $1.25 billion Crusoe order for 29 data-center gas turbines, its CEO said.

The filing says on-site gas power, fuel competition, and hotter weather could raise costs or delay planned builds.

BloombergNEF projects US data centers will consume about 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily by 2035, exceeding Germany and Japan combined.
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