Akamai Secures $11.6 Billion Multi-year Agreement with Anthropic for AI Infrastructure

Akamai Technologies, Inc. has announced a significantly expanded, seven-year agreement with Anthropic, totaling $11.6 billion in contractual commitment. This deal aims to support Anthropic's accelerating CPU workload demands by leveraging Akamai Cloud's distributed AI infrastructure and software. Akamai expects to invest approximately $5.5 billion in CapEx to support this agreement, including $1.7 billion in 2026 and $3.1 billion in 2027, highlighting a growing demand for Akamai's capabilities in building and operating AI workloads at scale.