#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, 09/25/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Akamai Technologies (AKAM) meddelade sent på torsdagen att de har undertecknat ett åtagande på 11,6 miljarder dollar med Anthropic för att stödja dess CPU-arbetsbelastningar med hjälp av Akamai Clouds infrastruktur.
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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.
