Anthropic Plans $518 Billion AI Compute Spend Over 10 Years as Revenue Run Rate Tops $65 Billion
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Oct 6
Anthropic Plans $518 Billion AI Compute Spend Over 10 Years as Revenue Run Rate Tops $65 Billion
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Oct 6
Summary
Anthropic told IPO investors it expects to spend $518 billion over the next decade on cloud and computing power, underscoring how capital-intensive advanced AI has become.
Long-term cloud deals with Amazon and Alphabet back that plan, while Anthropic argues AI could prove more transformative than industrialization, electricity or the internet.
Demand implied by that spending points to tighter supply and higher prices across AI infrastructure, with TrendForce forecasting high-bandwidth memory prices up 121% in 2027 and compute providers already raising rates sharply.
Anthropic’s own growth helps explain the bet: it ended 2025 with $4.6 billion in revenue, and its annualized run rate had surpassed $65 billion by July 2026.
That trajectory supports the company’s hoped-for $2 trillion IPO valuation, though the prospectus also highlights how vulnerable that case would be to any meaningful slowdown.