Britain Bets Big: Anthropic's $45bn UK Data Centre Deal Signals AI Infrastructure Gold Rush

Britain is quietly becoming the world's most attractive destination for AI infrastructure investment — and yesterday's announcement that Anthropic has agreed a $45bn data centre deal with UK startup Nscale suggests the thesis is proving out faster than anyone expected. The Claude maker is racing to secure computing capacity to train and run its latest models, and it chose British soil to do it.

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• The headline number: A $45bn commitment from one of the...