Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai cloud capacity built around CPUs, if Akamai meets delivery and availability targets. Akamai has to build that capacity first, for a customer that can end the contract under certain conditions.
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Anthropic signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year contract for CPU capacity on Akamai's cloud, the largest in Akamai's history. Akamai carries the build and expects no profit from it this year, with first revenue due in the second half of 2027.
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Anthropic committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai for CPU capacity, on terms that tie payments to delivery and include termination provisions. Akamai expects to spend about $5.5 billion building that capacity before full run-rate revenue arrives at the end of 2028.
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Akamai says half of enterprise AI deployments miss their own latency targets at peak load. The arithmetic points at where the work runs, not at how much GPU sits behind it.
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The company says it needs $500m of capex just to replenish capacity it has already committed. Treat advertised GPU availability at alternative clouds as a lagging indicator.
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