GoKawiilAnthropic is ramping up a push to secure European data center deals to power its AI models, as it looks to hire a role for negotiating compute capacity in the region.
U.S. hyperscalers' AI infrastructure expenditure is set to top $600 billion in 2026. Anthropic is looking to capitalize on the boom and has announced a slew of data center deals in the U.S. in recent weeks.
While it's yet to unveil any in Europe, that could be about to change. Anthropic is now recruiting for a principal to "drive the commercial sourcing and transaction execution process" for its European data center capacity deals, according to a job advert posted in London.
Anthropic declined to comment on the job advert or its plans for data centers in Europe.
It comes on the back of a number of AI infrastructure deals for the company. Anthropic said this week that it's committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services tech over the next 10 years. It also signed an expanded deal with Broadcom earlier this month for about 3.5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity.
Anthropic is currently evaluating deals to acquire data center capacity directly from developers "across the world," a source familiar with discussions told CNBC.