Anthropic’s Louisiana data center could generate $1.3 billion a month

Anthropic may be sitting on one of the most expensive calendars in tech. Its planned data center in Louisiana is estimated to generate about $1.3 billion in revenue every month once fully running. That turns the construction schedule into a revenue question. Under the same estimates, bringing the site online just one month early could pull forward at least $1.3 billion for the maker of the Claude AI models. The details: 611 acres, 330 MW and a lot of TPUs The project is called River Bend. It sits on a 611-acre campus in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and Hut 8 is developing it. The first phase will deliver 245 MW of IT compute capacity, backed by 330 MW of total power capacity. The hardware inside will be Google TPUs, the custom chips Google designed specifically for AI workloads. A quick translation of those two megawatt figures: 245 MW is the power that actually reaches the computers. The extra headroom up to 330 MW covers everything else a data center needs, such as cooling and electrical overhead. The financing structure is a three-way arrangement. On December 17, 2025, Hut 8 signed a 15-year lease worth $7 billion with Fluidstack, and Google guarantees the deal. Anthropic w...