Anthropic teams up with Macquarie and GIC to build AI data centres

Anthropic has partnered with Macquarie and GIC to build AI data centres, according to a report from Capital Brief published on August 10. The three-way partnership adds heavyweight financial backers to Anthropic's infrastructure push.

As reported, the collaboration brings together Anthropic, the Australian financial group Macquarie, and GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, to develop data centre capacity for AI workloads. Specific investment figures and locations have not been disclosed.

For Anthropic, the partnership is part of a broader effort to secure the enormous compute resources required to train and run frontier models. Tying capital partners to dedicated data centre construction gives the lab a more stable and controllable supply of compute.

For Macquarie and GIC, the deal reflects institutional capital's growing appetite for AI infrastructure as an asset class. With data centre demand still strong, participating in AI compute build-out has become a mainstream route for large investors to enter technology infrastructure.

The move also fits a wider industry pattern: AI labs are moving beyond renting cloud capacity toward building dedicated infrastructure with financial partners. The competition for AI compute has increasingly shifted to the physical layer of data centres and power.

What to watch next is the scale and location of the planned data centres, how quickly they come online, and how the arrangement slots into Anthropic's existing compute strategy. For anyone tracking AI infrastructure investment, it is another signal of where capital is flowing.