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Anthropic will spend $50 billion to build its own data centers.
They'll be in Texas, New York, and elsewhere across the US.
It could set new standards for AI labs trying to scale.
Anthropic will invest $50 billion in the construction of its own data centers, the company announced Tuesday -- a move that could have ripple effects across an industry already racing to build AI infrastructure.
"Anthropic serves more than 300,000 business customers, and our number of large accounts -- customers that each represent over $100,000 in run-rate revenue -- has grown nearly sevenfold in the past year," the company wrote in the announcement, citing the demand behind the expansion.
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The new facilities -- slated to be built in Texas, New York, and other locations across the country that have yet to be disclosed -- will be "custom built for Anthropic with a focus on maximizing efficiency for our workloads, enabling continued research and development at the frontier," the blog post said.
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