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Anthropic buys a million TPUs and skips the cloud

development2026-01-03

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Anthropic is purchasing one million TPUv7 chips directly from Broadcom and outsourcing physical operations to crypto-miners such as TeraWulf, building a vertically integrated compute silo.

Reported metric: 1M TPUv7

Reporting date: 2026-01-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to January 3, 2026

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Anthropic orders $10B of Google TPUs

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Welcome to January 3, 2026

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Anthropic buys a million TPUs and skips the cloud
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-03-anthropic-1m-tpus-direct
Claim: Anthropic is purchasing one million TPUv7 chips directly from Broadcom and outsourcing physical operations to crypto-miners such as TeraWulf, building a vertically integrated compute silo.
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- Welcome to January 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-3-2026
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