Anthropic to invest $50b in US data centres with Fluidstack

• Expected to create roughly 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs as facilities come online through 2026.

Anthropic said it will invest $50 billion to build custom data centres in the United States in partnership with infrastructure provider Fluidstack, starting with sites in Texas and New York and additional locations to follow.

The buildout, designed around the company’s Claude AI models, is expected to create roughly 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs as facilities come online through 2026.

The spending plan adds to a surge of AI infrastructure investment across US. tech, with Anthropic citing alignment with the federal AI policy push to bolster domestic capacity. The Google- and Amazon-backed startup was valued at about $183 billion in early September, underscoring investor confidence as enterprises accelerate AI adoption; the company says it now serves more than 300,000 enterprise customers.

Record capex investments

Anthropic’s facilities will be custom-built to support training and inference at scale for its Claude family, reflecting industry momentum to secure compute capacity amid tight supply of advanced chips and power.

The Texas and New York projects mark the first phase of a broader US expansion in data centre infrastructure, developed jointly with Fluidstack to optimise performance and efficiency for frontier models 125.

The company framed the outlay as a long-term commitment to US-based AI leadership and domestic technology infrastructure, with initial sites slated to begin coming online in 2026. The initiative follows a year of record AI-related capex announcements across Big Tech and hyperscalers as demand for model training and enterprise AI workloads surges.