Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases, a first for the company, with Google potentially providing a financial guarantee (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-pursues-first-data-center-leases-seeks-financial-backing-google"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260611/i37.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260611/p37#a260611p37" 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.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-pursues-first-data-center-leases-seeks-financial-backing-google">Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases, a first for the company, with Google potentially providing a financial guarantee</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic is moving forward with a plan to control its own servers for developing AI, giving it the ability to cut its computing costs in the long run.</p>