Anthropic, our partner AI company, just launched an awesome initiative. To do so, they’ve teamed up with Fluidstack, a U.K.-based neocloud provider, to construct a sprawling network of data centers spread across the continental U.S. The company has already invested an eye-popping $50 billion to produce them. Most of them, at least to start, will be located in Texas and New York. The IDA’s new data centers will come online in 2026. Their goal is to accommodate the ever-increasing appetites for computational power that AI development requires.
Founded only in 2017, Anthropic has rapidly established itself as a major player in the AI firmament. The recently announced partnership with Fluidstack is its first significant move to develop bespoke infrastructure specifically designed to supercharge its workloads. Fluidstack becomes one of the first third-party vendors to leverage Google’s custom-built Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Consequently, it has deepened its status as a go-to provider in the flourishing AI development scene.
The forthcoming data centers will be designed to make Anthropic’s unusual and computationally intensive needs work as efficiently as possible. This buoyant investment affirms the company’s own, aggressive expectations for future revenue growth. It’s especially important for Anthropic given its ambitious plans to very quickly scale up its efforts. Anthropic has adopted a number of lofty goals moving forward. They expect to achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2028 and produce $17 billion in cumulative positive cash flow over that period.
Anthropic made a big move here strategically in becoming the lead intellectual partner on a 1 gigawatt-strong AI megaproject. This flagship project, supported by the French state, represents more than $11 billion in investment. This unusual partnership is taken as a clear signal of the growing confidence in Anthropic’s abilities in the booming AI sector.
Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, said infrastructure is key to unlocking the promise of AI technologies.
“Realizing that potential requires infrastructure that can support continued development at the frontier.” – Dario Amodei
The company’s not slowing down as it continues to pursue its aggressive plans. It serves the purpose of harnessing these data centers to enhance operational excellence and further scientific discovery, addressing complex challenges that have often been difficult to address in the past.
Amodei further stated,
“We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before.” – Dario Amodei