Anthropic plans to spend up to $567 billion on compute. Its IPO prospectus reveals plans to set up its own data centers
Source: Fortune ·
The company's success depends on it, but intense competition and supply chain shortages stand in the way.
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Anthropic’s 318-page IPO prospectus, which the company made public today, makes one thing clear: Compute is existential to Anthropic’s business, and not securing enough of it is a significant risk factor. “Our ability to develop, train, improve, and deploy frontier models depends on our access to enormous and increasing quantities of specialized compute,” the company wrote in the prospectus, which is also called an S-1, using the name of the form type the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires companies to file ahead of an initial public stock offering. At the same time, “the market for compute is intensely competitive” and Anthropic competes with “some of the world’s largest and most well-capitalized technology companies,” the document said. The company’s future computing costs are potentially massive and could swamp Anthropic’s ability to pay for them. In total, the company has committed to spending between $542 billion and $567 billion on future compute and…