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The Information's tally since October 2025, with Google and AWS supplying roughly 11GW combined and SpaceX, Microsoft, Lambda and Nscale the rest. Most are take-or-pay, so the minimum holds whether or not capacity gets used. The figure is an upper bound derived from leases and chip phasing past 2030, roughly 3x an earlier $180B-through-2029 estimate. Separately, The Information identified Anthropic as the buyer on Rum Group's $13.7B six-year Georgia deal, which includes a 50.8M share warrant worth ~$364M to the customer. A lab taking equity upside in the landlord it owes a decade of payments to.
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