Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/banks-in-talks-to-lend-15-billion-for-anthropic-data-center-backed-by-google-606d7afd?st=xCJsTe&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260730/i41.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260730/p41#a260730p41" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anissa Gardizy / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/banks-in-talks-to-lend-15-billion-for-anthropic-data-center-backed-by-google-606d7afd?st=xCJsTe&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Google's guarantees of power and lease obligations would help developer secure financing for the 1.6-gigawatt Texas project</p>