AI startup Anthropic announced this Wednesday that it will invest US$50 billion in the construction of data centers in the United States, the latest billion-dollar investment in the sector, amid companies’ race to expand their artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company behind the Claude AI models said it will install the units in partnership with infrastructure provider Fluidstack in Texas and New York, with more locations coming online in the future. The data centers are custom-built for Anthropic.
Technology companies have announced massive spending plans this year, with many focusing on expanding their presence in the US, as President Donald Trump pushes for investment on US soil to maintain the country’s edge in the AI sector.
In January, Trump ordered his administration to draft an AI Action Plan that would make ‘the United States the artificial intelligence capital of the world.’ As part of this initiative, several American companies presented a series of big promises to invest in AI and energy during the technology and AI summit hosted by Trump in July.
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Anthropic said the project is expected to create about 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs in the U.S. as data centers come online throughout 2026.
The investment “will help advance the goals of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan to maintain North American leadership in AI and strengthen the nation’s technology infrastructure,” Anthropic said.
The San Francisco-based company, which is backed by Google parent Alphabet and Amazon.com, was valued at $183 billion in early September.
Founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI employees, Anthropic serves more than 300,000 enterprise customers. Its Claude large language models are widely considered to be one of the most powerful cutting-edge models on the market.
