The six-year deal with Rum — which owns conservative-leaning video platform Rumble, and is linked to President Donald Trump’s administration — was reported Monday (Sept. 14) by The Information, which cited a source familiar with the matter.
The report notes that this is the latest in a series of cloud computing deals Anthropic struck in the last year, with the likes of Google, SpaceX and smaller neoclouds such as Nscale, as it sees surging demand for its Claude Code and Cowork offerings.
These agreements, minus the new deal with Rum, total at least 14.8 gigawatts of compute capacity, costing up to $517 billion across the next decade, The Information added.
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Rumble is a popular video-sharing platform among conservatives, and also hosts Trump’s “Truth Social” site, the report said. Peter Thiel and Vice President J.D. Vance are among its early investors. In June, the company entered the AI cloud space when it acquired German neocloud Northern Data, renaming itself Rum Group.
The report says many aspects of the Anthropic-Rum deal are unclear. It involves Anthropic leasing compute capacity at a data center in Georgia that is still being built. Northern Data had said in 2025 that the site would be up and running late this year, but it’s not clear whether that is still the timeline, The Information said.
A source with knowledge of the matter told the news outlet that Rum is planning to borrow money to fund the data center, with the company disclosing in August that it did not have the financing needed for the construction of the facility and its required equipment.
In other Anthropic news, PYMNTS wrote Monday about company CEO Dario Amodei’s call for placing independent evaluators at leading AI companies and governments to slow the drive toward developing more powerful models.
Anthropic, that report said, is part of a group of companies “warning that AI could become too powerful” while “also asking for power over how it develops,” which is something that “deserves a safety review of its own.”
Amodei’s plan calls for embedded independent evaluators at companies and giving them access to permissions and tools similar to those of internal risk teams.
“The weakness is independence,” PYMNTS wrote. “Anthropic invites the evaluators, pays them and keeps some redaction rights. A credible system needs common accreditation standards, protected publication rights and a way to report serious findings directly to regulators, or an evaluator risks becoming a well-paid consultant with a badge.”
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