Feb 13, 2026
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Anthropic is gearing up to invest heavily in its own data center capacity, bringing on seasoned ex-Google managers to lead the effort.
The AI company is internally discussing "securing at least 10 gigawatts of capacity over the next several years," at a potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, The Information reports. As a startup without a strong credit rating, Anthropic needs powerful partners to back the project. Google has already stepped in as a guarantor for a data center in Louisiana, and Anthropic also plans to access up to one million TPUs in 2026.
Until now, Anthropic has rented compute from cloud providers, but it plans to start leasing its own data centers. To pull this off, it hired Tim Hughes from Stack Infrastructure and Brett Rogers, who spent six years building data centers at Google. Winnie Leung, with over 20 years of Google experience, is already on the team.
