Anthropic is rapidly increasing its AI computing capabilities in Asia Pacific to meet the surge in demand for its products.
US-based AI Lab is currently recruiting for 13 roles in its computing division focused on developing and managing AI data centers, eight of which are based in Australia or Japan.
In Japan, the company is recruiting for two roles: data center trade procurement and data center electrical engineer. All six Australian-based open roles are focused on data center engineers and operators. In April, Anthropic was also recruiting for data center deal sourcing roles in the country.
Anthropic, the world’s most valuable private company, announced a number of U.S.-based data center deals in the spring and was recruiting for a role negotiating computing capacity in Europe in April.
In recent months, the company has increasingly looked to expand overseas as usage of its enterprise and consumer products has gained momentum.
“Growth at this pace puts an inevitable strain on our infrastructure, especially as unprecedented consumer growth impacts reliability and operating results,” the company said in an April blog post.
“Abundant energy”
Anthropic continues its impressive pace of growth despite ongoing tensions with the U.S. government over its use of AI models.
AI Labs raised $65 billion in May at a valuation of $965 billion. The revenue run rate for the month exceeded $47 billion, several times the “approximately $9 billion” announced by Anthropic at the end of 2025.
As part of the race to build computing capacity, the listing of Data Center’s energy operations in Australia specifically mentions the company’s “rapidly expanding its AI computing footprint across the region” and leading “hundreds of megawatts of procurement efforts.”
David Law, head of the AI and security program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think tank, said Australia had surplus land, abundant renewable energy potential and a stable political and regulatory environment.
He also told CNBC that the country “is also distancing itself from military threats that have proven to be very vulnerable to Gulf states.” Conflicts in the Middle East are testing the region’s credibility as a safe place to build AI infrastructure. Amazon Data centers were targeted early in the war.
Australia’s involvement in the Five Eyes information-sharing partnership with the US also means Australia is seen as a safe destination for computing, even as the model becomes more powerful and sensitive as a national security asset, Mr Law added.
However, Mr Law said the “main obstacle” to building large-scale AI infrastructure in Australia was copyright law, “which puts AI companies at risk of being sued by rights holders”. Some Australian politicians are campaigning against copyright carve-outs for AI companies seeking to use content to train commercial products.
pursuit of power
Anthropic pointed to comments made by CNBC in May that said the company would expand production capacity internationally.
“We are very intentional about where we add capacity; partnering with democracies whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale; and where the supply chain (hardware, networking, equipment) our computing depends on is secure,” Anthropic said in a blog post.
There are no salary limits for roles in Australia and Japan, but a London-based European data center deal sourcing role the company was looking for in April offered a salary of between 225,000 pounds and 270,000 pounds ($296,854 to $355,253).
Engineering and technical positions in data centers are in particular demand due to labor shortages, and salaries for these positions are on the rise.
According to Anthropic’s job ad, Japan’s grid infrastructure is evolving and the government is showing significant interest in domestic AI infrastructure. The American Institute for AI is not the only company interested in investing in the region.
in april microsoft announced a $10 billion investment in Japan, including AI infrastructure development, and GMI Cloud announced a $12 billion sovereign AI project in March.
“Japan’s political stability, reliable power grid, highly developed internet and undersea cable infrastructure, and technologically skilled workforce make Japan a particularly attractive place to invest in Asia,” said Aalok Mehta, director of the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
“In many ways, this reflects the factors that are driving so much data center investment in the United States.”
AI infrastructure built in Japan, like projects around the world, still faces significant challenges in terms of access to energy.
For many data center developers in Asia Pacific, “securing power has become more difficult than securing land, financing and permits,” said Xiaonan Feng, principal analyst for power and renewable energy in Asia Pacific at Wood Mackenzie. “Grid availability has emerged as a critical constraint on data center growth.”
