Anthropic PBC agreed to a $35 billion computing deal with Lambda, a cloud provider backed by Nvidia, as part of an effort to quickly expand its AI capacity, according to Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. Infrastructure company Hut 8 is developing the Texas data center involved in the project, the person said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Nvidia would hold the lease on the data center, located in Nueces County, Texas.

The deal is the latest AI computing agreement tied to Nvidia, the world's most valuable business and the leading provider of AI chips, which has been using its financial resources to expand access to computing infrastructure, in turn boosting demand for its technology. Anthropic has emerged as one of the most significant customers for data center power. The Claude chatbot maker last week agreed to spend $45 billion to rent capacity from Nscale in West Virginia, and in recent months has signed cloud deals worth $50 billion with neocloud Fluidstack and $45 billion with Elon Musk's SpaceX.

A representative for Anthropic declined to comment, while Nvidia, Lambda and Hut 8 did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bloomberg reported last week that Lambda is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion and has discussed a valuation of $12 billion or more, according to people familiar with the talks. Lambda raised more than $1.5 billion in a November funding round and reached an agreement with Microsoft last year to deploy AI infrastructure powered by tens of thousands of Nvidia processors.