Anthropic's IPO filing shows it has agreed to pay up to about $206 billion to rent computing power built on Nvidia chips from three providers, including up to $120.5 billion with SpaceXAI, around $44.6 billion with Nscale and about $41.3 billion with Lambda. These are cloud rental contracts rather than chip orders, and rent also covers buildings, power, financing and provider profit, so Nvidia's portion is likely much smaller; commitments to Google and Broadcom alone total about $276 billion. Nvidia's data center revenue reached $89.0 billion in fiscal Q2 2027, more than double a year earlier, and the author argues its growth does not rest on any one lab. At around $216, Nvidia stock trades at about 14 times expected fiscal 2028 earnings per share; the author says they would consider investing at that level, though the filing does little to strengthen that case by itself.
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