Anthropic Commits $11.6 Billion to Akamai Cloud Services in Deal Worth Up to $20 Billion

Anthropic commits $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai cloud services for growing CPU workloads, with an option to expand the deal by $9 billion as Akamai plans $5.5 billion in related capital spending.

• Akamai announces a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud-services commitment from Anthropic to support its growing CPU workloads.
• The agreement can expand by up to $9 billion, bringing Anthropic’s potential total commitment to about $20 billion.
• Akamai estimates $5.5 billion in related capital expenditures and plans to increase 2026 spending by about $1.7 billion to pre-purchase supply-chain components including memory.