US artificial intelligence company Anthropic, the developer of chatbot Claude, is set to spend more than $3 billion on gas turbines to supply electricity to its data centres, in what the Financial Times describes as the largest purchase of power-generation equipment by an AI company.
The deal was reached with US-based OnePWR Solutions. Anthropic initially considered purchasing electricity from the company but ultimately opted to buy the turbines themselves, giving it greater control over the energy supply for its data centres.
The investment comes as opposition to the rapid expansion of data centres grows in the United States. Recent midterm election referendums highlighted public resistance to the construction of large facilities by technology companies including Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The results could make it more difficult for companies to secure approval for new projects.
The turbine purchase adds to Anthropic’s extensive spending commitments, which the report puts at nearly $900 billion in contracts with companies including Amazon and SpaceX. These agreements are intended to secure the chips and computing capacity needed to develop increasingly advanced AI models.
Anthropic continues to make substantial investments despite mounting losses and uncertainty over when its spending will translate into profits. The company’s reported losses for 2025 and this year rank among the ten largest corporate losses in US economic history. The article also says Anthropic is expected to become the first AI company to list on the US stock market this month.
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