Anthropic on Wednesday said it had signed an ambitious new data center partnership with U.K.-based neocloud provider Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the U.S. to meet its growing compute needs. The data centers will be located in Texas and New York, and come online throughout 2026. The company described the sites as “custom built for Anthropic with a focus on maximizing efficiency for our workloads.” “We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and ...

Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) $8 billion bet on Anthropic is beginning to look like one of the most accretive AI bets in the industry. Anthropic's Claude family of models is rapidly becoming the de facto model ofI am a retired quant with a PhD in mechanical engineering. I started off my professional career as an engineer and eventually transitioned into a hybrid developer/quantative analyst role at the investment arm of one of the nation's largest insurance companies.I ended my career as a fixed income ...