Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic on Wednesday announced a $50 billion investment to expand its computing infrastructure, including new data centers in Texas and New York.
Microsoft also revealed progress on a major data center project in Atlanta, Georgia, which it said will be linked to another facility in Wisconsin to form a “massive supercomputer” powered by hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips.
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The announcements underscore the tech industry’s continued push to build large-scale, energy-intensive AI infrastructure despite concerns about financial risks, environmental impact, and surging local electricity costs.
Anthropic, developer of the Claude chatbot, said the investment—made in partnership with London-based Fluidstack—will create about 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs. Microsoft’s new “Fairwater 2” center will bolster its own AI services as well as those of OpenAI and other developers.
Source: AP