Anthropic to spend USD50b building custom AI data centres in US
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The news: Anthropic will spend USD50 billion ($76.4 billion) to build custom data centres for artificial intelligence across several US locations, starting with Texas and New York.
The project, developed with UK-based infrastructure provider Fluidstack, marks Anthropic’s first major data centre buildout not done through cloud partners like Amazon or Google.
The company said the sites will begin coming online throughout 2026 and are expected to create about 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
Fluidstack will supply gigawatts of power to the new sites and was previously involved in a EUR10 billion supercomputer project in France.
What they said: Anthropic said the investment will help advance the Trump administration’s goal of maintaining US leadership in AI by strengthening domestic technology infrastructure. CEO Dario Amodei said the facilities will support development of more advanced AI systems capable of solving complex problems and accelerating scientific discovery.
Realizing that potential requires infrastructure that can support continued development at the frontier,” Amodei said. “These sites will help us build more capable AI systems that can drive those breakthroughs, while creating American jobs."
The context: The Claude developer, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI staff, has more than 300,000 enterprise customers and was valued at USD183 billion in September after raising USD13 billion.
It comes amid a wave of massive AI infrastructure spending from competitors like OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and others, who plan to pour hundreds of billions into data centres and computing capacity.
OpenAI has said it will spend USD500 billion on its Stargate project and Meta plans to invest USD600 billion over the coming years.
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) reported Microsoft is building a new AI “super factory” in Atlanta – a set of two-storey structures designed specifically for AI training – as part of plans to double its total data centre footprint over the next two years.
The sources: Anthropic, The Wall Street Journal
