{"data":{"id":1989,"lang":"en","title":"Anthropic Signs $19 Billion, 20-Year Data Center Lease With TeraWulf in Kentucky","summary":"Anthropic will pay an estimated $19 billion over 20 years to lease a 401-megawatt Kentucky data center from TeraWulf, part of its push past 10 gigawatts of committed AI compute capacity.","category":"ai","category_label":"AI","published_at":"2026-07-11T22:01:48Z","updated_at":"2026-07-11T22:01:48Z","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/article/1989-anthropic-signs-19-billion-20-year-data-center-lease-with-terawulf-in-kentucky","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/1989?lang=en","markdown_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/1989.md?lang=en","image_url":"https://d15shllkswkct0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2026/07/TeraWulf.png","word_count":205,"reading_time_minutes":2,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-signs-19bn-20-year-lease-for-kentucky-data-center-with-terawulf/","domain":"datacenterdynamics.com"},{"url":"https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-inks-19b-ai-data-center-lease-terawulf/","domain":"siliconangle.com"}],"translation":{"lang":"cs","id":2062,"title":"Anthropic podepsal 20letý nájem datacentra od TeraWulf v Kentucky za 19 miliard dolarů","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/clanek/2062-anthropic-podepsal-20lety-najem-datacentra-od-terawulf-v-kentucky-za-19-miliard","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2062?lang=cs"},"content":"Anthropic has agreed to a 20-year lease worth an estimated $19 billion with bitcoin miner-turned-AI infrastructure firm TeraWulf, securing computing capacity at a former aluminum smelting site in Hawesville, Kentucky. The 790-acre campus will scale to 401 megawatts of IT capacity, with initial capacity coming online in the second half of 2027 and the full build-out finished by early 2028.\n\nTeraWulf plans to invest $3-4 billion of its own money into the buildout, less than a fifth of the lease's total value, and will use a closed-loop cooling system that mixes water with propylene glycol to avoid straining local water supplies. The site's existing power transmission lines and fiber-optic infrastructure, left over from its industrial past, are expected to speed up construction. TeraWulf shares rose nearly 5% on the news, and the deal adds to Anthropic's broader push past 10 gigawatts of committed server capacity across multiple cloud and infrastructure partners.\n\nFor TeraWulf, which posted just $34 million in revenue last quarter, the agreement marks a dramatic pivot from cryptocurrency mining toward AI infrastructure and a major validation of that strategy. The deal follows a wave of similar long-term leases as AI labs race to lock in power and compute capacity years ahead of need."}}