Anthropic To Spend $50 Billion On US AI Infrastructure (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/12/2217257/anthropic-to-spend-50-billion-on-us-ai-infrastructure
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/anthropic-ai-data-centers-texas-new-york.html
> Anthropic [1]announced plans Wednesday to [2]spend $50 billion on a U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out , starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York. The facilities, which will be designed to support the company's rapid enterprise growth and its long-term research agenda, will be developed in partnership with Fluidstack.
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> Fluidstack is an AI cloud platform that supplies large-scale graphics processing unit, or GPU, clusters to clients like Meta, Midjourney and Mistral. Additional sites are expected to follow, with the first locations going live in 2026. The project is expected to create 800 permanent jobs and more than 2,000 construction roles. The investment positions Anthropic as a major domestic player in physical AI infrastructure at a moment when policymakers are increasingly focused on U.S.-based compute capacity and technological sovereignty.
"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," said CEO Dario Amodei. "These sites will help us build more capable AI systems that can drive those breakthroughs, while creating American jobs."
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-in-american-ai-infrastructure
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/anthropic-ai-data-centers-texas-new-york.html
Remember they do not have a business model (Score:2)
Because LLMs are too bad at things. At the moment they try to throw them at everything, mostly with mediocre or bad results. These "investments" are not justified in any way and will just waste the money.
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Claude is used pretty heavily for coding with people paying directly and through Microsoft. I've used it and with the right configuration and "skills" it's very good at the job.
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Ah, yes. "Code slower with LLM assistance". Also probably code worse. Good luck.
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I see some stupid people have mod-points. Here, waste some more. I dare you.
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> Claude is used pretty heavily for coding with people paying directly and through Microsoft.
In a world of AI how much will people pay for coding? AI may put millions of coders out of work but that may just mean that coding is really, really cheap. Or that it is cheaper to pay a coder than for the power required to have AI do it.
Circle jerk (Score:2)
I wonder when this circle of money going around between these companies is finally going to dry up?
Why not $500 Billion? (Score:2)
Since no number and no risk and no promise seems to be too big in this bubble, just pump up those rookie numbers even more.
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Billions? Amateur! Invest $500 trillion! It will all be worth it! Promise!
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Amateurs, this AI bubble is priceless! Hold my bitcoins and let me have a go at it.
Measly $50b (Score:1)
Because the govt spiggot is getting turned off? Who's paying for all this AI? The avg person has an expensive phone, a car etc, but look at the value of AI companies compared to other industries, then ask where is all the money coming from? It can't be all from those premium subscriptions. What's that, a few tens of millions? This is all free govt money kicking around, whether its direct or 1,2 etc hops, the source isn't avg joe buying something. I bet its all printed govt money, and you're all paying for i