Anthropic Pledges $50 Billion for U.S. AI Data Centers in Texas and New York, With First Sites Coming Online in 2026
What happened Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of models, announced a sweeping, multiyear $50 billion investment to build AI‑optimized data centers across the U.S. The move—reported today by Reuters—underscores the scale of compute and infrastructure required for frontier‑model training and enterprise AI workloads. Reuters Bloomberg’s coverage specifies that the first wave of sites will be in Texas…