Nexus Data Centers Nears $15B Loan for Anthropic Facility

Morgan Stanley is spearheading advanced financing negotiations to secure a massive $15 billion loan for Nexus Data Centers, CNBC confirmed, in a deal tied to infrastructure supporting Google-backed AI company Anthropic. The talks mark one of the largest single data center financing arrangements in recent memory, underscoring the extraordinary capital demands now driving the artificial intelligence buildout across the United States.

The scale of the proposed loan reflects how aggressively investors and lenders are rushing to fund physical AI infrastructure — the server farms and power-hungry facilities that underpin large language models and cloud-based AI services. Anthropic, which counts Google among its major backers, has rapidly expanded its computing needs as it competes with OpenAI and other frontier AI developers.

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Nexus Data Centers, if the deal closes, would gain substantial firepower to develop and operate facilities capable of meeting the soaring demand from AI workloads. Morgan Stanley's central role as lead banker signals that major Wall Street institutions are now directly financing the next wave of AI infrastructure at a scale that rivals traditional industrial megaprojects.

The financing talks highlight a broader trend in which data center developers are turning to debt markets — rather than equity alone — to fund expansion at a pace that public and private markets have rarely seen outside of energy or real estate sectors. As AI adoption accelerates, analysts expect deal sizes of this magnitude to become less exceptional and more routine across the sector.

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