WSJ: Google Funding $3.2B New York Data Center for Anthropic TPUs in Nvidia-Style AI Chip Rental Business

The Wall Street Journal reported June 19 that Google is building a Nvidia-modeled AI chip rental business, with a specific $3.2 billion data center in New York stocked with TPUs that Anthropic will lease under a long-term arrangement. The model extends Google's April Sundar Pichai announcement of TPU sales to select customers into physical infrastructure Google finances and earns rental revenue from — mirroring the hardware-as-a-service dynamic that made Nvidia's data-center segment dominant. This appears to be new reporting beyond the April earnings-call disclosure and the earlier Anthropic multi-gigawatt TPU agreement, with Google now directly financing facilities rather than just committing chip supply. Article behind paywall; details sourced from WSJ headline and Techmeme summary.