Anthropic Partners With Global Investors to Expand Data Center Footprint

By Katherine Hamilton

Anthropic has established a partnership with two international investment firms to develop and lease more data centers to fuel its rapidly expanding artificial intelligence development.

The AI company said Monday it will work with the Australian company Macquarie Asset Management and the Singapore-based investment firm GIC.

The companies will focus on finding data center sites in the U.S., with a goal of finding new facilities where Anthropic can be an anchor tenant.

Funds managed by Macquarie and GIC will pay for the majority of the equity for each project. The planned developments will require significant capital investment and are expected to create thousands of construction and permanent operational jobs.

Anthropic will pay for electricity price increases that consumers might face from these sites being built, the company said.

The deal comes as demand for Anthropic's Claude models is increasing, and Anthropic is racing to keep up with other AI developers such as OpenAI and Alphabet unit Google.

Data centers are necessary to train and operate the AI models, and tech companies are spending more on expanding their capacities. The Commerce Department said data center construction outlays in June were $68.3 billion at an annual rate, up $21.5 billion a year earlier.

Write to Katherine Hamilton at katherine.hamilton@wsj.com

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August 10, 2026 09:47 ET (13:47 GMT)