Google mulls deeper Anthropic investment as it scales global data infrastructure

div:bg-bg-000/50 &_pre>div:border-0.5 &_pre>div:border-border-400 &_. ignore-pre-bg>div:bg-transparent &_. standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6):pl-2 &_. standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6):pr-8 &_.

progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6):pl-2 &_. progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6):pr-8"> _*:min-w-0 standard-markdown"> Google is holding preliminary talks about putting more money into Anthropic, Business Insider reported ￰0￱ familiar with the matter say the new financing round could value Anthropic at over $350 ￰1￱ isn’t Google’s first rodeo with the AI ￰2￱ company has already put roughly $3 billion into Anthropic through two separate ￰3￱ came a $2 billion pledge in 2023, then another $1 billion earlier this ￰4￱ month, the two companies locked in a major cloud computing ￰5￱ gets access to one million Tensor Processing Units and one gigawatt of computing power by ￰6￱ one gigawatt of AI data center capacity runs about $50 billion, with $35 billion of that just for chips, according to industry ￰7￱ reported by Cryptopolitan this computing deal is central to Anthropic’s ￰8￱ OpenAI’s flashy 33-gigawatt Stargate vision, this one is built for actual execution, say industry ￰9￱ island selected for strategic data hub In a separate move, Google plans to build a large AI data center on Christmas Island, a tiny Australian territory in the Indian ￰10￱ company signed a cloud deal with Australia’s Department of Defense earlier this year, Reuters reports based on reviewed documents and official interviews.

Nobody’s talked publicly about the Christmas Island data center until ￰11￱ details remain secret, how big it’ll be, what it’ll cost, exactly how it’ll be ￰12￱ island sits 350 kilometers south of ￰13￱ experts say a facility there would be valuable for monitoring Chinese submarine and naval activity in the Indian ￰14￱ is deep into talks to lease land near the island’s airport for the data hub, Christmas Island Shire officials told ￰15￱ meeting records show the company is also working on a deal with a local mining company to secure energy needs. A recent war game involving Australian, U. S., and Japanese forces showed Christmas Island’s role as a forward defense line for Australia in regional ￰16￱ exercises highlighted advantages for launching unmanned weapon systems from ￰17￱ Clark ran those war ￰18￱ used to be a ￰19￱ strategist and now works at the Hudson ￰20￱ says having a forward command and control node on Christmas Island would be critical in a crisis with China or another ￰21￱ powers future combat systems “The data centre is partly to allow you to do the kinds of AI-enabled command and control that you need to do in the future, especially if you rely on uncrewed systems for surveillance missions and targeting missions and even engagements,” Clark told ￰22￱ cables give you more bandwidth than satellites, he explains, and they’re more ￰23￱ would likely jam satellite communications or Starlink in a crisis.

“If you’ve got a data centre on Christmas, you can do a lot of that through cloud infrastructure,” he added. Australia’s defense department entered a three-year cloud agreement with Google in July. Britain’s military recently announced a similar Google cloud deal, which officials say will boost intelligence sharing with the United ￰24￱ month Google applied for Australian environmental approvals to build the first subsea cable connecting Christmas Island to Darwin, a northern Australian city where ￰25￱ Corps are based for six months each year. SubCom, a U.

S. company, will install the cable link to Darwin, documents ￰26￱ has reported SubCom is the exclusive undersea cable contractor to the ￰27￱ company previously connected the U. S./UK military base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to a cable stretching from Australia to ￰28￱ up to $30,050 in trading rewards when you join Bybit today