Google Backs TeraWulf’s $19B Anthropic Leases [2026] - shattered.io
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Google agreed on November 4, 2026 to back the rent on roughly $19 billion of Anthropic lease commitments at a Kentucky data campus, TeraWulf said in its press release. The company (NASDAQ: WULF) signed three Credit Support Agreements with Google LLC, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. They cover lease buildings CB-1, CB-2 and CB-3 at the Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Kentucky.
The structure matters more than the headline figure. Google is not buying the campus and it is not lending the money. It is promising to stand behind Anthropic’s lease obligations so that lenders can price TeraWulf’s anticipated project debt against a stronger credit. That is a different job from writing a check, and it says a lot about how the AI buildout now gets paid for.
It also lands in a week when the market is already weighing how much debt the AI cloud can carry. We covered the earlier wave in NVIDIA $25B, Oracle $45B-$50B: AI Debt Wave. This deal adds a new variant, where one frontier lab’s landlord borrows against a rival-and-investor’s guarantee. Below we walk through what the agreements say, what they leave out, and what builders and investors should watch next.
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The announcement has four pieces. Google LLC will provide contractual credit support for anticipated debt financing. The support relates to approximately $19 billion in contracted lease commitments with Anthropic, PBC. The site is the Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. And TeraWulf entered into three separate Credit Support Agreements, one for each of the lease buildings CB-1, CB-2 and CB-3.
The word “anticipated” carries weight. The materials describe financing that TeraWulf expects to raise, not financing that has…
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