Anthropic announces $50B investment in new US data centers to meet AI demand

Anthropic, shaper of the chatbot Claude, said it is moving with London-based Fluidstack to physique the caller computing facilities to powerfulness its AI systems. It didn't disclose their nonstop locations oregon what root of energy they volition need.

A study past period from TD Cowen said that the starring unreality computing providers leased a “staggering” magnitude of U.S. information halfway capableness successful the 3rd fiscal 4th of this year, amounting to much than 7.4 gigawatts of energy, much than each of past twelvemonth combined.

Oracle was securing the astir capableness during that time, overmuch of it supporting AI workloads for Anthropic's main rival OpenAI, shaper of ChatGPT. Google was 2nd and Fluidstack came successful third, up of Meta, Amazon, CoreWeave and Microsoft.

Anthropic said its projects volition make astir 800 imperishable jobs and 2,400 operation jobs. It said successful a connection that the “scale of this concern is indispensable to conscionable the increasing request for Claude from hundreds of thousands of businesses portion keeping our probe astatine the frontier.”

The tech industry's immense magnitude of spending connected computing infrastructure for AI startups that aren't yet profitable has fueled concerns astir an AI concern bubble.

Investors person intimately watched a bid of intertwined deals implicit caller months betwixt apical AI developers specified arsenic OpenAI and Anthropic and the companies gathering the costly machine chips and information centers needed to powerfulness their AI products. Anthropic said it volition proceed to “prioritize cost-effective, capital-efficient approaches” to scaling up its business.