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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Publisher description: nthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
TechCrunch | Sep 25, 2026 | Aditya Mehta
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Anthropic will spend $11. 6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday. Akamai won’t see revenue from the deal this year. To build out the capacity, Akamai expects to spend about $5. 5 billion.
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