The arms race in the field of artificial intelligence is advancing into the infrastructure of computing power. According to insiders, the AI company Anthropic has recently signed a major computing power deal worth up to $9.1 billion with Riot Platforms Inc., a cloud computing company that has transitioned from Bitcoin mining.
As an important step in its business transformation, Riot Platforms Inc. has officially entered the field of artificial intelligence data center computing power services. According to the information it disclosed, the two parties have finalized a 20-year deep cooperation agreement, under which Riot Platforms Inc. will provide a total of 191 megawatts of power capacity through its modernized campus in Rockdale, Texas, to support the computing power needs of this leading AI company's large-scale models.
Industry experts point out that as competition among major AI model manufacturers for underlying computing power intensifies, transforming traditional energy and cryptocurrency mining companies' high-performance campuses into AI data centers has become a new trend in solving computing power bottlenecks. This long-term and significant cooperation not only provides Anthropic with long-term and stable computing power support for technological iteration, but also marks the accelerating integration of the AI industry with traditional energy infrastructure.
