Anthropic and OpenAI are looking beyond massive, multibillion-dollar data center projects and pursuing smaller deployments that could bring artificial intelligence computing capacity online faster.
The two leading AI labs have spent the past year securing enormous amounts of computing infrastructure, including facilities measured in hundreds of megawatts and even gigawatts. But people familiar with the discussions told CNBC that both companies are now exploring deals for significantly smaller sites with roughly 20 to 30 megawatts of capacity.
