Anthropic, the artificial intelligence laboratory preparing for a landmark public offering, is moving from renting computing power to owning the infrastructure that runs it — a shift that places the company inside the same capital-intensive world once reserved for utilities and telecommunications giants. Backed by $35 billion in chip-collateralized financing from Apollo and Blackstone, and committing $50 billion toward purpose-built facilities in Texas and New York, the company is betting that control over physical infrastructure is inseparable from control over the frontier of intelligence it
Anthropic's IPO Signals Strategic Shift to Data Centre Ownership
The infrastructure expansion is expected to create 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs in the US.