Anthropic announced a $50 billion data center partnership with U.K.-based Fluidstack on Wednesday, committing funds to build facilities across the U.S. to address compute requirements.
The new data centers, described as “custom built for Anthropic with a focus on maximizing efficiency for our workloads,” will be located in Texas and New York. These facilities are expected to become operational throughout 2026. Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei stated, “Realizing that potential requires infrastructure that can support continued development at the frontier,” emphasizing the need for infrastructure to advance AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and address complex problems.
The company currently maintains cloud partnerships with Google and Amazon, an investor, to support the intense compute demands of its Claude family of models. This initiative represents Anthropic’s initial significant effort to establish custom infrastructure. The $50 billion expenditure aligns with internal revenue projections, which forecast Anthropic achieving $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in positive cash flow by 2028.
This $50 billion commitment is smaller than projects undertaken by competitors. Meta has pledged $600 billion for data centers over the next three years, and the Stargate partnership, involving SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle, has allocated $500 billion for infrastructure spending. Concerns exist regarding an AI bubble due to potential flagging demand or misallocated spending.
For Fluidstack, a neocloud company founded in 2017, this project signifies a notable achievement. The company was designated in February as the primary partner for a 1-gigawatt AI project backed by the French government, valued at over $11 billion.
