Nexus Data Centers Nears $15B Loan for Anthropic Facility

Morgan Stanley is spearheading advanced negotiations to arrange a $15 billion loan for Nexus Data Centers, CNBC confirmed, in what would rank among the largest single data center financing deals on record. The massive credit facility is tied to Nexus's work building infrastructure for Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company backed by Google.

The sheer scale of the proposed financing underscores how aggressively capital markets are moving to fund AI-driven demand for computing power. Lenders and investors have raced to back data center developers as hyperscalers and frontier AI labs alike scramble to secure the physical infrastructure needed to train and deploy increasingly powerful models.

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Anthropomorphic is one of the most closely watched AI startups in the world, having attracted billions in investment from Google and other strategic backers. A dedicated, large-scale data center campus would signal a significant expansion of the company's operational footprint and computing capacity.

Morgan Stanley's lead role in the transaction places the Wall Street giant at the center of one of the AI infrastructure boom's most consequential financing rounds to date. The outcome of these talks could set a benchmark for how lenders price and structure debt for next-generation AI facilities going forward.

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