Anthropic announced plans to lease dedicated data center capacity in Australia as part of geographic expansion strategy.

US tech giant Anthropic is rushing to secure local data centre capacity ahead of its $1 trillion-plus sharemarket listing, telling developers it will buy any available capacity that can be delivered by mid-next year as it aims to make Australia its second home for training its AI models.

Sources involved in the talks, unable to speak publicly because the information is confidential, said Anthropic was seeking to write its first Australian data centre contracts this month, concurrent with a copyright deal with the Albanese government that would enable it to train its powerful Claude AI model legally in this country.