[Anthropic Deploys Measures to Strengthen Compute Power Control, Aiming to Reduce Reliance on Cloud Providers] Odaily Planet Daily reports that Anthropic plans to lease up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity from a data center developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management. The discussions are currently in the early stages. This marks a significant effort by the AI company to reduce its dependence on cloud service providers. According to sources familiar with the matter, Anthropic has discussed becoming a direct tenant at facilities developed by Stream Data Centers, where it plans to deploy TPUs designed by Broadcom and Google. Anthropic is negotiating with Stream Data Centers to lease up to 1 gigawatt of compute power. The company seeks direct control over its computing resources, which could potentially lower costs. Anthropic has also explored the possibility of Google providing credit guarantees for the project. It remains unclear which part of the project Google would guarantee. (Jin10)