Anthropic Taps Bitcoin Miner With Trump Family Ties For Data Centers

December 17, 2025

Anthropic will get up to 2.3 gigawatts of computing power from data centers being developed by Hut 8, a bitcoin mining company with close ties to the Trump family.

Hut 8 and cloud startup Fluidstack will develop a data center campus in Louisiana with an initial 245 megawatts of power and the potential for an additional 1 gigawatt over time, it said Wednesday. Anthropic, the customer for