Bitcoin Miners Encounter New Competition for Affordable Energy as Anthropic Enters Multi-Gigawatt Computing Agreement
Anthropic has unveiled a partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU compute capacity, slated to come online starting in 2027, marking the company's most substantial commitment to date, with revenue growth accelerating to a $30 billion annual run rate from $9 billion at the end of 2025. The scale of AI compute demand now directly competes with bitcoin mining…