--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "d285c567040fdaebef19fd6c0bfebc1b2a9728a48f10f10741858f94cb4a7d07" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/d285c567?lang=en" title: "Akamai's Anthropic Cloud Deal Expands to as Much as $20B" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-24T23:39:14.000Z" category: "Industry" topics: ["anthropic","cloud","infra","partnership","akamai","releases","computing","funding"] source_urls: ["https://marketbrief.now/ai/akamais-anthropic-cloud-deal-expands-to-as-much-as-20b-038a6d80","https://huggingnews.com/ai/akamais-anthropic-cloud-deal-expands-to-as-much-as-20b-038a6d80","https://huggingnews.com/ai/akamai-shares-surge-20percent-on-116b-anthropic-computing-deal-c23ac899","https://marketbrief.now/ai/akamai-shares-surge-20percent-on-116b-anthropic-computing-deal-c23ac899"] summary: "Akamai Technologies signed a contract to provide cloud computing infrastructure to Anthropic for $11.6 billion over a seven year term to support growing CPU workloads. The agreement includes options for additional expansions of up to $9 billion, which would bring the total commitment to roughly $20 billion. Akamai plans to spend $5.5 billion on capital expenditures to build capacity, including $1.7 billion this year for memory components through a consignment arrangement with Jabil. Shares of Akamai rose more than 20% in post market trading following the announcement. Under the terms of the pact, Anthropic received warrants for up to 5% of Akamai, with 2% vesting upon the initial deal and the remainder tied to future cloud spending. Akamai also signed a separate hardware and services agreement with Lenovo with terms extending up to seven years to further ramp up its infrastructure." --- # Akamai's Anthropic Cloud Deal Expands to as Much as $20B > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-24T23:39:14.000Z **Category:** Industry **Topics:** anthropic, cloud, infra, partnership, akamai, releases, computing, funding ## Summary Akamai Technologies signed a contract to provide cloud computing infrastructure to Anthropic for $11\.6 billion over a seven year term to support growing CPU workloads\. The agreement includes options for additional expansions of up to $9 billion, which would bring the total commitment to roughly $20 billion\. Akamai plans to spend $5\.5 billion on capital expenditures to build capacity, including $1\.7 billion this year for memory components through a consignment arrangement with Jabil\. Shares of Akamai rose more than 20% in post market trading following the announcement\. Under the terms of the pact, Anthropic received warrants for up to 5% of Akamai, with 2% vesting upon the initial deal and the remainder tied to future cloud spending\. Akamai also signed a separate hardware and services agreement with Lenovo with terms extending up to seven years to further ramp up its infrastructure\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Story source]()