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Caroline Hyde

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Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

We're seeking billions of that.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

How much more debt are you going to have to take on to fuel the growth?

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

So, you know, we're we've been very creative about how we kind of look at the capital markets, making sure that we can execute on our plan for the in the most cost effective way.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And so, you know, we issued eight and a half billion dollars worth of bonds at a minus rate.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

of A minus paper because of the quality of our counterparties.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And that was a tremendous reduction in our weighted average cost of capital.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And then we came back yesterday, we did the largest dual offering ever.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And that was both the convertible note that we issued as well as a tranche of high yield, you know, really positioning us well for the capital requirements.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And it's just the oversubscription to these tools that we're bringing into market, to the paper that we're bringing to market, really provides tremendous transparency to us, to our investors, to our clients,

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

about how much access we are going to be given to capital as we continue to execute on this strategy.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And people are really confident the cost of capital keeps coming down in our ability to kind of drive the compute that is so dear to all of these model creators and people who are producing product for artificial intelligence.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

As the cost of capital comes down a tad more, how much more money do you need to get from the debt markets, Michael?

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

Yeah, so look, our strategy continues to be success-driven, right?

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And so we go out and we execute a contract like the one we just did with Meta.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

And now with that contract in hand, we will go into the capital markets and we will raise debt that will be at a very low cost of capital to be able to build the infrastructure to deliver on that contract.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

Each of our contracts are profitable and drive wonderful return and

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

At the parent co, we're just looking to continue to scale into this unique opportunity to kind of build an enormous company that is instrumental in delivering infrastructure to the world.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

How much does Anthropic need?

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

So we're not at liberty to speak to the size of that contract.

Bloomberg Tech
Wall Street CEOs Summoned to Discuss Anthropic AI Risks

It is a multi-billion dollar contract, but really much more importantly than that, from our perspective, this is the first contract that we've executed with them.