Anthropic reportedly signs multiyear cloud deal with IREN, a former bitcoin miner
In brief
- Anthropic entered a multiyear cloud-services deal with IREN, according to a report by The Information.
- Neither Anthropic nor IREN had confirmed the report at the time of publication.
- IREN is a data-center operator formerly involved in bitcoin mining.
- IREN earlier disclosed a contract with an unnamed "leading frontier AI lab."
- Anthropic was last valued at $965 billion after a funding round.
What's been reported
The Information broke the story, and Crypto Briefing relayed the report of a multiyear cloud-services agreement between Anthropic and IREN. Anthropic is the lab behind the Claude model family. IREN is a data-center operator that was formerly involved in bitcoin mining (that's the angle crypto readers will recognize).
Neither side has confirmed it.
This development, reported by The Information, has not yet been confirmed by either company.
Crypto Briefing included that line in its write-up, and it's worth keeping in mind. A report isn't an announcement, and the coverage doesn't include a statement from Anthropic or IREN.
IREN's unnamed AI customer
IREN had previously disclosed a contract with an unnamed "leading frontier AI lab," and the source said that lab is now believed to be Anthropic. If that's right, the report puts a name to a customer IREN hadn't identified publicly.
Where IREN would fit
The agreement would place IREN among Anthropic's infrastructure partners, which include AWS and Google, according to the source. Anthropic was last valued at $965 billion after a funding round, the same report said.
So a data-center operator with bitcoin-mining roots would be listed alongside AWS and Google as one of Anthropic's infrastructure partners, at least on paper.
For now, it's one report, relayed secondhand. Until Anthropic or IREN says something on the record, the deal is unconfirmed.
