Akamai announced an expanded partnership with Anthropic, securing a 7-year contract commitment worth a total of USD 11.6 billion; the partnership could increase by up to an additional USD 9 billion in the future.
According to reports, Anthropic is in early talks with Stream Data Centers to directly lease up to 1GW of data center capacity; the deal's scale remains undecided and it may not be completed.
Alibaba announced that it will establish its first cloud regions in Türkiye, Finland, and the Netherlands within the next 12 months, while expanding data centers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.