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\t<\/a><\/p>\n\t The new compute lead will work with staff in both Canada and the U.S. to find and lease sites for facilities, secure power, finance the projects, oversee construction and lobby federal and provincial governments. Anthropic is also hiring a community engagement manager in Alberta to deal with municipal officials, local organizations and residents in places where its data centres could be built. It\u2019s also recruiting engineers in Canada who can work on its systems for inference, the stage at which AI models produce outputs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s major rival OpenAI has also expressed<\/a> interest in building compute infrastructure in Canada as part of its pitch to sell countries sovereign AI capabilities.<\/p>\n Anthropic has to this point mostly bought compute from cloud providers and data centre operators rather than building facilities it runs directly. Some of its partners already have a Canadian presence.\u00a0<\/p>\n In April, the firm signed<\/a> a US$100-billion deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for five gigawatts of new capacity to train and run its models. AWS has committed<\/a> to spend $4 billion in Alberta between 2023 and 2037, including on expanding its data centre cluster in Calgary. Anthropic also buys<\/a> processing power from Google, which has AI infrastructure in Ontario and Quebec. And the Claude maker is getting<\/a> some compute from neocloud Fluidstack, which uses<\/a> Iren\u2019s data centres in British Columbia to serve some of its clients.<\/p>\n Alberta, where Anthropic\u2019s new data centre point person will be based, has touted<\/a> itself as a prime location to build compute capacity. Last month, Meta announced it would build<\/a> a US$13-billion data centre near Calgary, with electricity from a natural gas power plant of up to 1.8 gigawatts. The Logic first reported<\/a> on the social media giant\u2019s plans last year.<\/p>\n Several data-centre projects in Canada have faced local opposition. This week, the Alberta Utilities Commission denied<\/a> an application for a 1.4 gigawatt power plant in Olds, Alta., tied to a potential compute facility, saying the firm proposing it hadn\u2019t conducted proper consultations. Anthropic plans to task its new engagement manager with making the firm \u201ca trusted, visible, and valued neighbour\u201d in the communities in which it plans to operate. That includes anticipating residents\u2019 concerns and touting the \u201cclear local benefits\u201d of its projects.<\/p>\n Anthropic has been setting up government relations and commercial teams in Canada. Earlier this month, it hired<\/a> Jacob Glick from Amazon as its country head of public policy. He previously worked for Rogers and Telus; connectivity to fibre networks is a major need for data centres. Anthropic also recently hired a former Uber lobbyist in Canada, and has advertised vacancies for sales staff focused on financial services clients.<\/p>\n In April, lobbyists representing the firm registered to engage officials in Alberta\u2019s technology and energy ministries on \u201cAI policy and opportunities.\u201d That same month, the firm also<\/a> lobbied<\/a> senior officials in the federal innovation department and staffers working for Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson.<\/p>\n Anthropic has recently been trying to add compute capacity outside the U.S. The firm has reportedly<\/a> signed a US$10-billion deal with Volta Infra, a startup founded by former Brookfield Asset Management executives, for a data centre in Norway. It\u2019s also looking to hire<\/a> compute-focused staff in Australia and Japan.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI firm Anthropic is planning to source a significant amount of compute capacity in Canada, including from new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2573,439,17,2134],"class_list":["post-174676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-canada","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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