Global artificial intelligence (AI) companies such as Microsoft (MS), Meta, and Anthropic are moving aggressively to build data centers in the United States.
On the 12th (local time), MS Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said on the company's business social networking service LinkedIn that it will build a new data center, "Fairwater 2," in Atlanta, Georgia. The name is taken from "Fairwater," a data center currently under construction in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
MS plans to link the two data centers with a high-speed network to form a single "AI super factory."
MS said the two data centers will deploy hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs), the latest AI accelerators, and minimized cabling to pack them as densely as possible, reducing latency to a minimum.
Meta will build its 30th data center worldwide in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. The data center will have a footprint of 700,000 square feet (about 65,000 square meters) and aims to go online in 2027.
Meta said the data center will be matched to run on 100% clean energy, and 100% of the water it consumes will be restored to the nearby watershed.
Anthropic also announced that it would invest $50 billion (about 73 trillion won) in AI infrastructure in the United States on the same day. As part of that, it said it would build custom data centers in Texas and New York.
Anthropic's data centers are to be built in partnership with FluidStack, an AI cloud platform that supplies GPU clusters. The first operations are targeted for 2026.
Anthropic said the investment will create 800 full-time jobs and more than 2,000 construction jobs in the United States.
Anthropic also emphasized that the data center build-out plan "will help achieve the Trump administration's AI execution plan goals to maintain America's AI leadership and strengthen U.S. technology infrastructure," adding, "We are proud to create U.S. jobs and strengthen America's competitiveness."