A lab will pay $45 billion for 460 megawatts at a campus a rival abandoned

Claim

Anthropic will pay Nscale $45 billion for 460 megawatts of next-generation hardware at a campus Microsoft abandoned, while Actinide became the first startup to enrich uranium into HALEU on a modern calutron and a rainmaking company produced 19 million gallons of rain over Alaska in three hours.

Reported metric: $45B / 460 MW

Reporting date: 2026-08-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)