San Francisco-based AI startup Anthropic, founded in 2021, announced plans to invest $50 billion in U.S. computing infrastructure, starting with the creation of data centers with Fluidstack in Texas and New York (with additional plans for future sites). Fluidstack builds and operates high-performance GPU clusters for researchers and AI teams. The new project with Anthropic is expected to create 800 permanent jobs and about 2,400 construction jobs. Sites are scheduled to come online throughout next year. “These facilities are custom built for Anthropic with a focus on maximizing efficiency for our workloads, enabling continued research and development at the frontier,” according to Anthropic.

The initiative “will help advance the goals in the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan to maintain American AI leadership and strengthen domestic technology infrastructure,” explains the news release.

“We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. “These sites will help us build more capable AI systems that can drive those breakthroughs.”

ZDNet suggests that Anthropic’s plan “could set new standards for AI labs trying to scale.”

“Most AI startups don’t have the funds of an OpenAI or an Anthropic at their disposal, and will have to continue relying on partnerships and leasing agreements with third-party AI infrastructure companies,” reports ZDNet. “But for the small subset of developers who can afford it, following in Anthropic’s footsteps by building proprietary data centers could catch on.”

Anthropic “is already engaged in significant cloud partnerships with both Google and Amazon” to meet “the intense compute demands of Anthropic’s Claude family of models,” TechCrunch notes. “But this is the company’s first major effort to build custom infrastructure.”

Anthropic says it currently “serves more than 300,000 business customers.” Its larger accounts — “customers that each represent over $100,000 in run-rate revenue — has grown nearly sevenfold in the past year.”

UK-based neocloud startup Fluidstack has partnerships with companies such as Black Forest Labs, Meta Platforms and Nvidia.

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