By Rebecca Szkutak
Publication Date: 2026-04-07 16:05:00
AI research lab Anthropic announced Monday that it signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for increased processing and compute capacity to power its Claude AI models. This reworking of its compute deals comes as demand for its AI models continues to soar.
The deals would expand Anthropic’s use of Google Cloud’s tensor processing units, or TPUs, the company’s advanced AI chips, and is an expansion of the deal the companies struck in October 2025 for more than a gigawatt of compute capacity.
This new compute capacity will come online in 2027, Anthropic said in a blog post. The company did not give specifics for its compute expansion, but a recent Broadcom SEC filing shows the deal includes 3.5 gigawatts of compute.
The majority of this compute will be housed in the U.S. and will be an extension of the company’s $50 billion commitment to invest in U.S. compute infrastructure, Anthropic said in the post.
“This groundbreaking partnership with Google and…