Anthropic Reportedly Earmarks $3.4 Billion for Gas-Fired Generators to Power Data Centers

Anthropic has reportedly agreed to spend $3.4 billion on gas-fired generators to supply power to its data centers, a move that underscores how far AI companies are going to secure electricity for increasingly power-hungry computing infrastructure. The figure, which has been reported but not independently verified in the available reporting, would make the purchase one of the more notable energy commitments yet tied to a frontier AI developer. Reports did not specify the generator vendor, the locations of the facilities to be served, or the delivery timeline, and no detailed official statement was available at the time of writing.