Anthropic gets into the data center business, pledging $50 billion
Buoyed by brisk business sales, Anthropic is investing in its first custom-built data centers, with sites in New York and Texas, partnering with Fluidstack.
After watching Meta, Amazon, xAI, and OpenAI spend billions on massive AI data centers, Anthropic is getting into the game.
Today the company announced a partnership with AI infrastructure specialist Fluidstack to build its first two data centers, one in New York and one in Texas, “with more sites to come.” The move to build its own, costly data centers comes after engaging in several large cloud computing partnerships. Anthropic recently announced a partnership with Google for cloud computing worth “tens of billions,” and has had a long relationship with major investor Amazon, including as a key customer for its massive Project Rainier data center.
Anthropic said the project will create about 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs. The facilities are expected to come online in 2026.
In a press release, the company said:
“The scale of this investment is necessary to meet the growing demand for Claude from hundreds of thousands of businesses while keeping our research at the frontier. We’ll continue to prioritize cost-effective, capital-efficient approaches to achieving this scale as our growth continues.”
The announcement also name-checked the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan. This is noteworthy, as Semafor recently reported that Anthropic’s resistance to allowing its Claude AI models to be used for surveillance was irking the White House.
Anthropic has reportedly boosted its internal revenue forecasts, as lower costs enabled by diversifying away from Nvidia chips have increased profit margins.
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