Partnership Provisional 90% confidence first seen
Akamai and Anthropic agreed to a multi-year compute arrangement in which Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure over seven years. The deal covers distributed CPU workload capacity using Akamai Cloud infrastructure and includes provisions for capacity expansion and potential adjustments tied to future cloud spending.
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25 September 2026
The biggest AI story today wasn’t about a new model’s benchmark; it was about who pays for the electricity. Anthropic has agreed to a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, with an unusual ramp that starts at essentially zero Akamai revenue in 2025 and then projects just $150 million to $300 million in 2027. Akamai is also committing roughly $5.5 billion to build capacity, and the agreement includes a warrant tied to Anthropic’s future cloud spend, with the whole thing expandable toward about $20 billion or able to unwind under certain conditions. It’s a reminder that “frontier” is only half the story—infra economics are the other half.
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