Anthropic will invest $50 billion in artificial intelligence data centers in the United States

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The new centers, which Anthropic is developing in partnership with UK-based Fluidstack, will be operational throughout 2026, the company said Wednesday in a statement.

The project represents the first major data center expansion led directly by Anthropic, rather than through cloud computing partners like Amazon and Alphabet’s Google.

Rival OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, said the data center projects advance the Trump administration’s goals of “preserving American leadership in artificial intelligence” by bolstering domestic technology infrastructure.

Anthropic said it aims to create 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs at the new sites. According to the statement, Fluidstack, a startup that sells cloud computing services for artificial intelligence, will provide “gigawatts of power” as part of the project.

“We are increasingly moving closer to artificial intelligence capable of accelerating scientific discoveries and solving complex problems in previously impossible ways,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. – These sites will help us develop more advanced artificial intelligence systems, driving these discoveries and creating American jobs.

Billions of dollars in contributions and investor skepticism

Companies like OpenAI, Meta (owner of Instagram and Facebook), Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and other tech giants plan to collectively invest hundreds of billions of dollars in data centers to support AI.

Earlier this year, OpenAI announced a $500 billion investment in US projects under the Stargate brand, which it has since expanded to other countries. Meta is building a 2-gigawatt facility in rural Louisiana, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said the company plans to invest $600 billion in the U.S. in data centers, infrastructure and jobs over the next few years.

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These investments come amid investor doubts about whether the cost is too high for a technology that has not yet demonstrated a profitable business model. Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s chief financial officer, played down concerns last week: “I don’t think there’s enough enthusiasm around AI when I think about the practical implications and what it can do for people.”

Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, positions itself as a trustworthy, security-focused company. Although smaller than its competitor, Claude’s chatbot and underlying technology are gaining traction among enterprise customers in the financial and healthcare sectors, as well as developers.

In September, the company raised $13 billion, taking its valuation to $183 billion, and claims to have 300,000 enterprise customers.

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Fluidstack, Anthropic’s partner in data center expansion, is one of the so-called “neoclouds” — companies that rent computing power to develop artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, Fluidstack struck two unusual deals with Google involving cryptocurrency miners (TeraWulf and Cipher Mining). In both cases, Google acted as guarantor, pledging to compensate creditors in the event that Fluidstack defaults or declares bankruptcy.