Anthropic will invest $50 billion in building AI data centers in the US

Anthropic conscionable announced plans to enactment $50 billion toward bolstering computing infrastructure successful the US. As portion of the initiative, the institution is moving with the AI unreality level Fluidstack to physique datacenters successful Texas and New York, “with much sites to come.” 

The information centers volition travel online passim 2026 and make 800 jobs, according to Anthropic. “It volition assistance beforehand the goals successful the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan to support American AI enactment and fortify home exertion infrastructure,” Anthropic says successful the property release.

Anthropic isn’t the lone AI institution pouring billions into gathering retired information centers, arsenic OpenAI and SoftBank announced the $500 cardinal “Stargate Project” successful January, which volition airy up a bid of AI information centers astir the US, starting with Texas. Meta has besides committed $600 cardinal to put successful US infrastructure and information centers.

Anthropic says that the size of its concern “is indispensable to conscionable the increasing demand” for its AI chatbot Claude, portion besides allowing it to support its probe “at the frontier” of the technology.