April 6, 2026
Gigawatts and goss
Anthropic expands partnership w Google and Broadcom for multiple GW of compute
“Universe unlocked” or “power hog”? Internet splits over Anthropic’s mega-deal
TLDR: Anthropic signed a massive compute deal with Google and Broadcom to power Claude from 2027, boasting a $30B revenue run rate. Commenters split between cosmic hype, confusion over “gigawatts,” and distrust of Broadcom—plus side-eye at the sudden revenue jump—making this a high-stakes, power-hungry AI arms race everyone’s watching.
Anthropic just hit the big red button on compute, inking a deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of hardware power starting in 2027 to feed its Claude AI. The company claims demand is exploding and its revenue “run rate” topped $30B, with most new machines planned for the U.S. press release. But the comments? Absolute chaos.
On one side, the hype train is at warp speed: one user declared these machines could “learn the whole universe,” crowning Claude a general-purpose brain. Cue the memes—yes, the “1.21 gigawatts?!” jokes were flying. On the other, skeptics were clutching calculators and power bills. “Why is everything marketed in gigawatts?” asked one bewildered commenter, while another patiently explained that’s how you measure data center scale—before detouring into how token pricing is “weird” and output costs more than input discussion. Translation: even the units are a fight.
Then came the spicy plot twist: the Broadcom partnership. Critics dredged up the company’s reputation after the VMware saga and asked why Anthropic would cozy up. Meanwhile, revenue truthers zeroed in on the $19B → $30B in a month leap and yelled “buried lede!” Others shrugged: it’s an AI arms race—go big or go home. Anthropic reminded everyone it still leans on Amazon’s cloud, runs across Google and Microsoft too, and picks the “best chip for the job.” The crowd’s verdict? Half “build the future,” half “check the grid—and the receipts.”
Key Points
- •Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next‑generation TPU capacity coming online starting in 2027.
- •The expansion targets powering Anthropic’s frontier Claude models and meeting accelerating global customer demand.
- •Anthropic’s run‑rate revenue surpassed $30B in 2026, up from about $9B at the end of 2025; $1M+ customers grew from 500 in February to over 1,000 in under two months.
- •Most new compute will be located in the United States, expanding a November 2025 pledge to invest $50B in U.S. computing infrastructure.
- •Anthropic maintains a heterogeneous and multi‑cloud approach: AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, NVIDIA GPUs; Amazon is the primary cloud provider, with Claude available on AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure Foundry.