Anthropic PBC today announced a $50 billion plan to build data centers in the U.S.
The initiative will see the artificial intelligence provider open facilities in Texas and New York next year. It plans to launch additional sites further down the line. According to Anthropic, the data centers will be based on a custom design intended to optimize the efficiency of its workloads.
The company plans to carry out the project with Fluidstack Ltd., a fairly low-profile AI infrastructure startup. A few weeks ago, Forbes reported that the company had raised about $25 million in funding. According to The Information, it has also secured a credit line worth more than $10 billion from a group of institutional lenders.
It’s notable that Anthropic picked Fluidstack over larger AI infrastructure providers such as CoreWeave Inc., which went public in April. One motivation may have been the custom software tooling developed by the former company. Fluidstack says that its software can automate much of the manual involved in operating graphics processing unit clusters.
The company has developed a custom operating system, Atlas OS, that enables administrators to launch GPU clusters in a few clicks. It also automates subsequent maintenance tasks such as restarting servers. Customers can optionally extend Atlas OS’ feature set by installing orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Slurm.
Fluidstack’s other flagship software tool is called Lighthouse. According to the company, it can monitor a GPU cluster for technical issues and fix them automatically. If a malfunctioning server can’t be restored, Lighthouse moves its workloads to another machine.
Anthropic didn’t specify what chips will run in the data centers it plans to build with Fluidstack. The latter company’s website states that it currently offers AI clusters based on high-end Nvidia Corp. graphics cards such as the GB200, B200 and H200. That hints the upcoming data centers may also use Nvidia silicon.
Anthropic has not yet detailed how it plans to finance the $50 billion project. The company, which is currently unprofitable, has raised about $33.7 billion from investors to date. It’s possible Anthropic will raise additional funding or debt to finance the data center investments.
“We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before,” said Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei. “Realizing that potential requires infrastructure that can support continued development at the frontier.”
The announcement comes weeks after Amazon Web Services Inc. opened a $11 billion data center campus built for Anthropic. Project Rainier, as the site is called, will host 1 million AWS Trainium2 chips by year’s end. In the longer term, the cloud giant plans to construct 23 additional buildings on the campus that will boost its computing capacity to 2.3 gigawatts.
Photo: Fluidstack
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