Anthropic has signed an unannounced multiyear cloud agreement with IREN (IREN), The Information reported Sunday, expanding its network of data-center providers amid a roughly $530 billion AI infrastructure buildout.IRENĀ The Information reported Sunday, expanding its network of data-center providers amid a roughly $530 billion AI infrastructure buildout. * Deal terms: The agreement's financial value, computing capacity and deployment timeline were not disclosed. * Infrastructure expansion: Anthropic increasingly relies on current and former Bitcoin miners, including IREN, Hut 8, TeraWulf and Nscale, to secure scarce power and data-center capacity. * Deployment economics: A separate 245-MW Hut 8 facility could generate an estimated $1.3 billion in additional Anthropic revenue by coming online one month early. The estimate does not apply to IREN's contract. * Cloud partnerships: The IREN agreement adds to Anthropic's existing arrangements with AWS, Google and more than a dozen other providers. 11-OCT-2026 07:48 PM ET