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Power capacity, measured in megawatts of committed electrical load at the data center level, is the physical constraint that determines how large an AI company's compute footprint can grow at any single site.
Anthropic has agreed to rent around 460 megawatts of compute capacity at an Nscale data center development in West Virginia, according to sources. The deal is valued at $45 billion.
Where 460 megawatts sits in the stack Compute capacity in data center agreements is measured in megawatts because power consumption is the binding variable at scale.
AI accelerator hardware, the GPU and custom silicon clusters that handle training runs and inference workloads, draws substantial continuous power. Thermal management tracks that electrical load closely.
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