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Artificial intelligence unicorn Anthropic has recently reached a massive 6-year, up to $137 billion cloud computing and compute power agreement with Rum Group. As a platform operator that has maintained close ties with the Trump camp over the long term, Rum Group not only hosts Truth Social but also handles a large amount of digital infrastructure for the conservative political bloc. The deal continues Anthropic’s path of large-scale compute capacity expansion over the past year, similar to its moves alongside companies such as Google and SpaceX. As a result, its promised compute spending over the next decade will rise to more than $517 billion, locking in at least 14,800 megawatts of power and compute capacity.

The transaction highlights an extremely aggressive capital expenditure model in the race among cutting-edge AI models. Against the backdrop of tighter macro liquidity, such ultra-large, long-term capital commitments will undoubtedly intensify resource monopolization in the tech sector and increase financial leverage risks. The explosive expansion of compute demand is pushing technology firms toward heavy reliance on energy and specialized infrastructure. If commercialization and monetization proceed more slowly than expected, this massive scale of capital expenditure will face serious valuation rollback pressure.

For traditional financial markets, the ongoing rise in tech giants’ investment in heavy assets is reshaping the direction of capital flows. Large-scale infrastructure construction is driving up costs across the power and hardware supply chains, which could strengthen inflation stickiness on the supply side and thereby reduce the Federal Reserve’s room for future rate cuts. Treasury yields may remain at elevated levels with volatile oscillation, lifting the overall financial environment’s risk-free interest rate and potentially weighing on risk assets that rely on ample liquidity.

From the perspective of the crypto market, massive capital continues to be sunk into traditional AI infrastructure and centralized compute networks, creating a short-term liquidity diversion effect on risk assets, including $BTC . Decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) and decentralized AI narratives may theoretically benefit from compute shortages, but given that traditional tech giants have locked in absolute resources through multi-billion-dollar long-term agreements, the actual competitiveness and market share of Web3 compute projects still require cautious monitoring.

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