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Anthropic is one of the single most important artificial intelligence startups in the world. And now, they’re partnering up with Hut 8.
What’s happening:
- Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) has formed a new partnership with Anthropic and Fluidstack to deploy data centre infrastructure in the United States for artificial intelligence workloads
By the numbers:
- Hut 8 has committed to deploying up to 2,295 megawatts of total power capacity as part of the new deal with Anthropic and Fluidstack and will deploy a minimum of 245 megawatts of total power capacity imminently
Why it matters:
- This is one of the largest partnerships Hut 8 has ever formed for building out physical infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high performance computing
Going deeper:
- Fluidstack will operate the GPU clusters as part of the new deal with Hut 8 and delver computing capacity directly for Anthropic’s large language models
- Fluidstack has cut multiple deals for high performance computing with publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies lately, including previously entering into partnerships with TeraWulf (NASDAQ: WULF) and Cipher Mining (NASDAQ: CIFR)
