Anthropic commits US$50 billion to build AI data centres in US


Anthropic plans to spend US$50 billion to build custom data centres for artificial intelligence work in several US locations, including Texas and New York, the latest expensive pledge for infrastructure to support the AI boom.

The new sites, which Anthropic is developing with UK-based Fluidstack, would start coming online throughout 2026, the company said Wednesday in a statement.

The project marks the first major data centre buildout that the AI firm has taken on directly, rather than through cloud-computing partners such as Amazon.com and Alphabet’s Google.

The OpenAI rival said the data centre projects would advance the Trump administration’s goals of “maintaining American AI leadership” by “strengthening domestic technology infrastructure”.

Anthropic said it aimed to create 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs at the planned sites. Fluidstack, a start-up that sells AI cloud-computing services, would provide “gigawatts” of power as part of the projects, the companies said in the statement.

Anthropic develops the AI chatbot, Claude. Photo: dpa
Anthropic develops the AI chatbot, Claude. Photo: dpa

“We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before,” Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder, said in the statement. “These sites will help us build more capable AI systems that can drive those breakthroughs, while creating American jobs.”

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