#Anthropic11.6BCPUDeal
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Anthropic has signed a seven-year cloud agreement with Akamai worth about $11.6 billion to support rising CPU demand, with scope to expand by up to $9 billion. Akamai expects around $5.5 billion in related capital spending and plans to secure key components, including memory, early. Anthropic is also reportedly seeking up to 1 GW of data-center capacity. Will more deals confirm that AI demand is spreading beyond GPUs into CPUs, storage and cloud infrastructure?
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Anthropic's seven co-founders own ~14% of the company but want 50.1% of the shareholder vote through special shares.
A "Long-Term Benefit Trust" with zero equity can elect a majority of the board.
Google, Meta, and Snap founders had dual-class control too, but they owned 28-36% at IPO. This is a different animal.
h/t @matthew_sigel
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02:36 PM EDT, 25/09/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Akamai Technologies (AKAM) ha dichiarato giovedì sera di aver firmato un impegno da 11,6 miliardi di dollari con Anthropic per supportare le sue esigenze di carico di lavoro CPU utilizzando l'infrastruttura di Akamai Cloud.
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Anthropic’s 7 co-founders reportedly own ~14% of the company, roughly 2% each. They’re seeking 50.1% of the voting power.
This kind of control has precedent, but those founders generally came public owning much more of their companies. Page and Brin owned ~32% of Google at IPO, Zuckerberg ~28% of Facebook, and Spiegel and Murphy ~36% of Snap. They all still have majority voting control. (For context, a recent dataset of 79 dual-class VC-backed IPOs shows only 15% gave the CEO majority voting power, with a median voting power of 18%.)
Then Anthropic adds another layer: Long-Term Benefit Trust, an "independent group" created to protect the company’s public-benefit mission, owns zero equity but can still elect a majority of the board.
The Trust has roots in the Effective Altruism/AI safety world. Needless to say, controversial.
So public investors may own ~86% of the economics while the founders control the shareholder vote and a "mission-driven trust" controls the board.
Hard to believe this structure doesn’t cost Anthropic some multiple.
