Another day, another pledge from a tech company to invest billions in American AI data centers.
Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s investing $50 million in AI infrastructure in the US, starting with custom-built data centers in Texas and New York.
The company said those projects, built in conjunction with Fluidstack, will create 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs, and that sites will come online in 2026.
“We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before. Realizing that potential requires infrastructure that can support continued development at the frontier,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement. “These sites will help us build more capable AI systems that can drive those breakthroughs, while creating American jobs.”
Anthropic is just the latest tech company to announce a significant investment in American infrastructure, though it pales in comparison to the investment made by other tech giants.
Earlier this month, Meta announced a $600 billion investment to “support AI technology, infrastructure, and workforce expansion” in the US, confirming a figure that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg floated at a dinner with President Donald Trump and other tech CEOs.
And Apple announced in August that it would invest an additional $100 million into US infrastructure, bringing the company’s total investment to $600 billion.
It’s still a sizable investment for Anthropic, which has been in existence for less than five years and has quickly become one of the most valuable startups in the world. Business Insider previously reported that Google is in early discussions to increase its investment in Anthropic, which could bring the AI startup’s valuation to more than $350 million.
It comes as Anthropic competes with rival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, for dominance in the AI race. Anthropic is best known for its Claude large language model and chatbot.
Several tech companies have sought to align themselves with the Trump administration on AI, which released an AI Action Plan in July that emphasizes rapid development of data centers in an effort to counter China.
In its Wednesday announcement, Anthropic said that its new $50 million investment would “help advance the goals in the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan to maintain American AI leadership and strengthen domestic technology infrastructure.”
