PHOTO: REUTERS[LONDON] Anthropic has formed a strategic partnership with Macquarie Asset Management and Singaporean wealth fund GIC to build data centres for the Claude developer. The largest tech companies are spending historic sums on data centres and chips with a similar logic. Anthropic has made relatively few splashy partnerships for data centre project compared to rival OpenAI, which launched its Stargate infrastructure joint venture. In 2025, Anthropic, which is prepping for a closely-watched public listing, said it would spend US$50 billion on custom data centres in several US locations, including Texas and New York. The company recently obtained a US$35 billion loan to lease computer chips at five data centres, thanks to a backstop from Google.