Anthropic to invest $50 billion in new US AI data centers

Anthropic has announced a sweeping $50 billion plan to expand its computing infrastructure across the United States, marking one of the largest investments yet in the race to build AI capacity. The company says the initiative, created in partnership with the AI cloud platform Fluidstack, will begin with new data centers in Texas and New York, with additional locations expected to follow. These sites are scheduled to go live throughout 2026 and are set to create around 800 jobs once operational.

According to Anthropic, the investment supports the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan, which aims to secure US leadership in artificial intelligence while strengthening the nation’s technology backbone. The company says the scale of the project reflects the fast-rising demand for Claude, its AI assistant, and its commitment to keeping research at the cutting edge of the field.

The $50 billion effort adds to a wave of massive data center investments by major AI players. Earlier this year, OpenAI and SoftBank revealed the $500 billion Stargate Project, an initiative to develop a network of large-scale AI data centers across the country, beginning in Texas. Meta has also pledged $600 billion toward US infrastructure and data center expansion as the competition to secure computing power accelerates.

Anthropic says these new facilities are essential to support both present and future demand for AI tools, noting that more robust infrastructure is required to keep advancing the technology responsibly. The company emphasized that its growing user base and the increasing complexity of its models make significant infrastructure growth unavoidable.

With AI adoption surging across industries, Anthropic’s investment underscores how central computing capacity has become to maintaining leadership in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.