{"slug": "zuckerberg-s-plan-to-sell-excess-ai-compute-could-finds-its-first-big-customer", "title": "Zuckerberg's plan to sell excess AI compute could finds its first big customer in Anthropic", "summary": "Meta is in talks to rent out AI compute capacity to Anthropic in a deal potentially worth up to $10 billion over two years, according to the New York Times. The arrangement would provide Meta with a new revenue stream as it spends heavily on AI infrastructure, while Anthropic seeks additional capacity to meet surging demand for its Claude Code product.", "body_md": "# Zuckerberg's plan to sell excess AI compute could finds its first big customer in Anthropic\n\n**Meta is reportedly in talks with Anthropic to rent out compute capacity from its data centers.** The deal could be worth up to $10 billion over two years, according to the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-computing-deal.html). Anthropic pitched the arrangement in June. Meta is still reviewing it, and either side could walk away. For Meta, this would open a new revenue stream. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already told investors he could sell excess capacity if the company's own AI demand didn't keep pace.\n\nMeta plans to spend up to $145 billion this year, mostly on AI. The company is also building out new revenue sources with [paid AI subscriptions like \"Meta One\"](https://the-decoder.com/meta-one-zuckerberg-finally-puts-a-price-tag-on-all-that-ai-spending/) and even investing in [space-based solar power](https://the-decoder.com/meta-wants-to-power-ai-data-centers-with-solar-energy-from-space/) for its data centers. Anthropic needs the extra capacity because demand for Claude Code has surged. The company already signed a [$45 billion deal with SpaceXAI](https://the-decoder.com/how-anthropics-80x-growth-blew-past-its-own-infrastructure-and-straight-into-musks-data-center/). Long term, though, Anthropic wants to [build its own data centers](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-recruits-ex-google-data-center-veterans-to-build-its-own-ai-infrastructure-empire/) and has hired former Google executives to lead that effort.\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n[New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-computing-deal.html)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zuckerberg-s-plan-to-sell-excess-ai-compute-could-finds-its-first-big-customer", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/zuckerbergs-plan-to-sell-excess-ai-compute-could-finds-its-first-big-customer-in-anthropic/", "published_at": "2026-07-17 21:16:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 21:24:10.994569+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-startups", "ai-chips", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Meta", "Anthropic", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Claude Code", "SpaceXAI", "New York Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zuckerberg-s-plan-to-sell-excess-ai-compute-could-finds-its-first-big-customer", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zuckerberg-s-plan-to-sell-excess-ai-compute-could-finds-its-first-big-customer.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zuckerberg-s-plan-to-sell-excess-ai-compute-could-finds-its-first-big-customer.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zuckerberg-s-plan-to-sell-excess-ai-compute-could-finds-its-first-big-customer.jsonld"}}