Anthropic has declared $50 billion investment in US computing infrastructure, collaborating with Fluidstack to construct data centers in Texas and New York, with more sites planned.
The facilities will be customized to the workloads of Anthropic to support future AI research and development.
It is anticipated that the project will generate approximately 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs, with sites anticipated to be online until 2026.
It coincides with the AI Action Plan of the Trump administration that seeks to enhance domestic AI leadership and technology infrastructure.
CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said, We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before.”
He further added that “Realising that potential requires infrastructure that can support continued development at the frontier. These sites will help us build more capable AI systems that can drive those breakthroughs, while creating American jobs.”
Anthropic claimed that it is investing in order to satisfy the increasing demand for its AI assistant Claude, which currently has over 300,000 business clients.
The company has also announced that the number of large accounts that create over $100,000 of revenue per year has grown by almost sevenfold during the previous year.
The company chose Fluidstack because it was capable of providing large-scale power infrastructure in a short period of time.
Co-Founder and CEO of Fluidstack, Gary Wu, added that “Fluidstack was built for this moment.” He stated, “We’re proud to partner with frontier AI leaders like Anthropic to accelerate and deploy the infrastructure necessary to realise their vision.”
Anthropic reported that the investment will help the company to scale effectively, therefore, maintaining focus on safety, alignment, and interpretability research.
Meanwhile, AWS, an Anthropic investor, has recently partnered with OpenAI on $38 billion deal to execute and scale OpenAI’s core AI workloads on AWS infrastructure.
The agreement highlights the increasing competition between major AI players to gain access to computing.
Recent collaborations among OpenAI with NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom collectively constitute over 26 gigawatts of capacity and possible commitments to a total exceeding $1 trillion of overall infrastructure investments.
