Anthropic drops $50B to supercharge US datacenters in the AI gold rush

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Anthropic just announced it’s about to unleash $50 billion to bulk up America’s AI computing infrastructure. 

It’s the kind of number that sounds like it fell out of a sci-fi novel, but the company insists it’s very real money for a very real mission: building massive datacenters across the US so its chatbot Claude doesn’t get winded answering everyone’s existential questions.

To make this happen, Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack, an AI-focused cloud platform that most people haven’t heard of but now suddenly sounds very important. 

Together, they’re gearing up to build new datacenters in Texas and New York, with more locations “to come,” which is corporate speak for “we’re about to colonize several more zip codes.” 

The facilities are scheduled to start coming online throughout 2026 and are expected to generate around 800 jobs, presumably for people who know far more about servers than the rest of us.

Anthropic’s announcement also gives a nod to policy, saying the project will help advance the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan by boosting American leadership and homegrown tech infrastructure. 

Whether or not the government planned for this scale of wallet-opening, Anthropic certainly seems ready to run with it.

And in case you thought this was the only mega-spending spree in town, think again. The AI datacenter arms race is fully underway. 

Earlier this year, OpenAI and SoftBank dropped jaws with their $500 billion Stargate Project (half a trillion dollars for datacenters, because why not), which will also kick off in Texas. 

Then there’s Meta, apparently responding with a casual $600 billion US infrastructure investment of its own. 

At this point, large language models may soon have nicer homes than most Americans.

Anthropic says its own $50 billion investment is “necessary to meet growing demand” for Claude, which continues to gobble computing power like a bottomless digital pit. 

The money will also help keep the company’s research “at the frontier” of AI, which is tech-company lingo for staying competitive while lighting up the electrical grid.

The datacenter gold rush is on, and Anthropic is digging hard.