• First data centers to be built in Texas, New York, expected to go operational in 2026
• Plan expected to create 2,400 construction jobs, 800 permanent jobs

ISTANBUL 

US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $50 billion on US AI infrastructure, building data centers starting in Texas and New York.

The data centers will be built with Fluidstack, which is an AI cloud platform that supplies large-scale graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters to clients like Meta, Midjourney and Mistral.

"These facilities are custom-built for Anthropic with a focus on maximizing efficiency for our workloads, enabling continued research and development at the frontier," Anthropic said in a statement.

The first sites will go operational in 2026, and more sites are anticipated to follow. More than 2,400 construction jobs and 800 permanent jobs are anticipated as a result of the project.

The investment plan will help advance the goals in the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan to maintain American AI leadership and strengthen domestic technology infrastructure, according to the statement.

"We are proud to create good American jobs and bolster American competitiveness," it noted.

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei said: “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."

“These sites will help us build more capable AI systems that can drive those breakthroughs, while creating American jobs," he added.