Anthropic, the developer of the AI model “Claude,” has announced a $50 billion (approximately 73.475 trillion won) investment to establish AI infrastructure in the United States. Anthropic plans to construct custom data centers in Texas and New York to support company growth and long-term research plans, as revealed on the 12th (local time).
The data centers, set to begin operations next year, will be built alongside the AI cloud platform “Fluidstack,” which provides GPU clusters. Anthropic estimates that this investment will create 800 full-time jobs and over 2,000 construction jobs in the U.S. They stated that this decision to invest in data centers will contribute to maintaining America’s AI leadership and help achieve the AI implementation goals of the Donald Trump administration’s plans to strengthen U.S. technology infrastructure.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, mentioned, “We are getting closer to AI that accelerates scientific discovery and assists in solving complex problems in previously impossible ways,” adding that “realizing AI potential requires infrastructure that supports ongoing development.”
U.S. big tech companies have been actively expanding AI infrastructure investments domestically and abroad. OpenAI is pursuing the construction of data centers across the U.S. and in several foreign countries, including South Korea, as part of its “Stargate” project with SoftBank and Oracle.
Microsoft (MS) is building a data center in Wisconsin. Meta, the operator of Facebook and Instagram, is constructing a mega data center “Hyperion” in Louisiana and another data center in Texas. Amazon has unveiled a $11 billion AI data center project in Indiana.
In Europe, Google will invest €5.5 billion (approximately 9.3 trillion won) by 2029 in AI infrastructure, including a new data center near Frankfurt in the town of Dietzenbach, and expand the Hanau data center, which opened in 2023.
MS announced plans to build a data center in Portugal, investing $10 billion (approximately 14.6 trillion won) in the port city of Sines, 150 km south of Lisbon, in collaboration with Nvidia, data center developer StartCampus, and AI infrastructure platform Nscale.