Google banks $3.2B on TPU rentals to Anthropic, echoing Nvidia’s chip play
Google has staked $3.2 billion on the Lake Mariner data‑center in western New York, where it will lease thousands of its Tensor Processing Units to Anthropic. By mirroring Nvidia’s model of financial guarantees and compute‑as‑a‑service, Alphabet is turning its custom chips into a commercial product line that could reshape AI infrastructure markets.