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Anthropic secures multiple gigawatts of Google TPU capacity with Broadcom from 2027
Anthropic signed an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity, coming online from 2027 and mostly sited in the US. It builds on Anthropic's October 2025 TPU expansion and its November 2025 pledge of $50bn for US AI infrastructure; Anthropic said its run-rate revenue had passed $30bn.
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It deepens Anthropic's bet on Google TPUs alongside AWS Trainium and NVIDIA GPUs, making TPUs a major non-NVIDIA route to frontier-scale compute.
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