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title: "Expanding our use of Google Cloud TPUs"
description: "Anthropic announces plans to expand its use of Google Cloud technologies, including up to one million TPUs, in an expansion worth tens of billions of dollars. The company expects the deployment to bring well over one gigawatt of capacity online in 2026, increasing resources for customer demand, testing, alignment research, and responsible deployment at scale. Anthropic says it serves more than 300,000 business customers and that large accounts, defined as customers representing more than $100,000 in run-rate revenue, have grown nearly sevenfold in the past year. The company describes a diversified compute strategy using Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, and NVIDIA GPUs, while remaining committed to Amazon as its primary training partner and cloud provider and continuing Project Rainier."
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# Expanding our use of Google Cloud TPUs

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Sep 10, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Anthropic announces plans to expand its use of Google Cloud technologies, including up to one million TPUs, in an expansion worth tens of billions of dollars. The company expects the deployment to bring well over one gigawatt of capacity online in 2026, increasing resources for customer demand, testing, alignment research, and responsible deployment at scale. Anthropic says it serves more than 300,000 business customers and that large accounts, defined as customers representing more than $100,000 in run-rate revenue, have grown nearly sevenfold in the past year. The company describes a diversified compute strategy using Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, and NVIDIA GPUs, while remaining committed to Amazon as its primary training partner and cloud provider and continuing Project Rainier.

## Context

Anthropic is expanding compute capacity as customer demand grows. It reports more than 300,000 business customers, while the number of large accounts—customers representing more than $100,000 in run-rate revenue—has grown nearly sevenfold in the past year.

## Approach / What changed

Anthropic plans to expand its use of Google Cloud technologies, including up to one million TPUs, bringing well over one gigawatt of capacity online in 2026. It will continue using a diversified compute strategy spanning Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, and NVIDIA GPUs, alongside its ongoing partnership with Amazon and Project Rainier.

## Takeaways

- The planned Google Cloud expansion includes up to one million TPUs and is worth tens of billions of dollars, with well over one gigawatt of capacity expected online in 2026.
- Additional compute will support customer demand, more thorough testing, alignment research, and responsible deployment at scale.
- Anthropic’s compute strategy uses three chip platforms—Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, and NVIDIA GPUs—while Amazon remains its primary training partner and cloud provider.

**Tags:** [Google Cloud](https://yomu.fyi/topic/gcp), [TPU](https://yomu.fyi/topic/tpu)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-cloud-tpus-and-services)
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