"The latest deals show that the tech industry is moving forward on huge spending to build energy-hungry AI infrastructure, despite lingering financial concerns about a bubble, environmental considerations, and the political effects of fast-rising electricity bills in the communities where they're constructed. Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, said it is working with London-based Fluidstack to build the new computing facilities to power its AI systems. It didn't disclose their exact locations or what source of electricity they will need."
"A report last month from TD Cowen said that the leading cloud computing providers leased a "staggering" amount of U.S. data center capacity in the third fiscal quarter of this year, amounting to more than 7.4 gigawatts of energy, more than all of last year combined. Oracle was securing the most capacity during that time, much of it supporting AI workloads for Anthropic's chief rival OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. Google was second and Fluidstack came in third, ahead of Meta, Amazon, CoreWeave, and Microsoft."
Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure that will include new data centers in Texas and New York. The company said it is working with London-based Fluidstack to build the facilities but did not disclose exact locations or energy sources. Microsoft announced a new Atlanta data center linked to one in Wisconsin, describing the pair as a "massive supercomputer" running on hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips. Cryptocurrency miner TeraWulf has previously worked with Fluidstack on Google-backed projects in Texas and New York. A TD Cowen report said cloud providers leased more than 7.4 gigawatts of U.S. data center capacity in one quarter. Anthropic expects about 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs from the projects.
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