Anthropic Spends $3.4 Billion on Gas Generators to Power AI Data Centers
Anthropic has a power problem, and it just spent $3.4 billion trying to fix it. The Financial Times reported on Sunday that the company behind Claude struck a deal in late September to secure 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators for its AI data centers, taking over generator orders placed by a Texas equipment supplier. If the report holds up, it’s one of the clearest signs yet that the AI race has a new bottleneck, and it isn’t chips. ...