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Anthropic signs $11.6B cloud deal with Akamai
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- →Anthropic secures long-term compute capacity through a massive multi-year commitment.
- →The deal structure grants Anthropic equity in its cloud provider, reversing typical supplier-investor dynamics.
- →Highlights growing infrastructure demand for CPUs to support AI agent workloads.
Anthropic has agreed to spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, marking the largest deal in Akamai's history. The agreement includes a warrant allowing Anthropic to acquire up to 5% of Akamai’s stock, with equity vesting tied to spending milestones that could push the total contract value to $20 billion. Akamai plans to invest $5.5 billion to build out this capacity, focusing on CPU resources to support growing demand from AI agents. The announcement caused Akamai shares to rise 17% in after-hours trading.
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