Florida Moves to Halt OpenAI as Akamai Books $11.6B Anthropic Deal
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · 10 min
Florida asked a state court to halt OpenAI's model development, citing extinction and grid-sabotage risks. Meanwhile, Akamai's $11.6 billion Anthropic compute deal, expandable to about $20 billion, leads a wave of cloud buildouts that includes Google in Brazil and Microsoft in India.
Listen
Show notes
Florida asked a state court to halt OpenAI's model development, citing extinction and grid-sabotage risks. Meanwhile, Akamai's $11.6 billion Anthropic compute deal, expandable to about $20 billion, leads a wave of cloud buildouts that includes Google in Brazil and Microsoft in India.
In this episode
- Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development — Ars Technica
“It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants’ AI agents hasn’t compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid—yet,” the state writes in the motion. OpenAI representatives have yet to respond to a request for comment from Ars Technica regarding the injunction motion. What can a state court really do? While many think the risk of civilizational collapse posed by current or…
- Akamai signs $11.6bn compute deal with Anthropic - DCD — Data Center Dynamics
Skip to main content # Akamai Lands Record $11.6B Anthropic AI Cloud Deal, Eyes $20B Potential Posted by ABMN Staff on Sep 27th, 2026 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Stocktwits Get alerts: Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) said it has signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year commitment with artificial intelligence company Anthropic to provide cloud infrastructure…
- Google Cloud plans to double Brazil infrastructure by 2030 as agentic AI — Business News Today
Google Cloud plans to double Brazil infrastructure by 2030 as agentic AI # Google Cloud plans to double Brazil infrastructure by 2030 as agentic AI demand grows Google Cloud plans to double its technical infrastructure in Brazil by 2030, adding local compute, storage and AI processing while Gemini Enterprise introduces in-country data processing and NVIDIA Blackwell-powered G4 virtual machines…
- Microsoft’s India South Central cloud region in Telangana to serve as a strategic hub for Asia and Global South - Press Network of India — Press Network of India
Microsoft’s India South Central cloud region in Telangana to serve as a strategic hub for Asia and Global South - Press Network of India # Microsoft’s India South Central cloud region in Telangana to serve as a strategic hub for Asia and Global South By PNI Admin On Sep 28, 2026 HYDERABAD: Microsoft today welcomed Shri Duddilla Sridhar Babu, Hon’ble Minister for Information Technology,…
- Step Back — Why are AI companies signing such enormous, long-term data-center and cloud contracts, and what evidence would tell us whether that spending reflects durable demand rather than an infrastructure bubble?
Background sources
- AI companies take a page from the energy sector's finance playbook — Tobias Burns
- What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off | MIT Technology Review — MIT Technology Review
- The $7 trillion data center build-out — Mckinsey