Google Moves to Finance Anthropic's Texas Data Center Campus

Google is reportedly nearing a deal to help bankroll a Texas data center campus operated by Nexus Data Centers and leased to Anthropic. The move signals a deepening financial relationship between Google and the Claude-maker.

The Texas facility has a notable twist: it plans to sidestep grid connection delays by using direct gas supplies for power. That's a pragmatic workaround as AI companies scramble for energy-hungry compute capacity faster than utilities can deliver it.

Google already has a significant investment stake in Anthropic. Financing the infrastructure that literally keeps Anthropic's servers running takes that partnership to another level — from backing the software to underwriting the physical foundation beneath it.

The deal underscores how Big Tech is willing to get creative with capital deployment to lock in AI partnerships and secure scarce data center capacity.