Anthropic’s $50B AI Bet Starts in Texas and New York

Anthropic is spending $50 billion on custom US data centers in Texas and New York, teaming with Fluidstack to boost AI compute, jobs, and domestic capacity.

What does $50 billion buy you in the AI era? If you’re Anthropic, the answer is simple: a coast-to-coast compute empire built from scratch.

The company is launching one of the largest infrastructure bets in the race to power next-generation AI — a nationwide network of US data centers purpose-built to “drive new AI breakthroughs.” CEO Dario Amodei says the expansion is essential to accelerate scientific progress and reinforce America’s technology backbone.

If it succeeds, the build-out will anchor US compute capacity for years to come.

Texas and New York become the starting points for expansion

Texas and New York will host the first wave of Anthropic’s new data centers, leading the company’s multistate push to build ...