Anthropic is accelerating across the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen the computing power dedicated to its artificial intelligence. The US company, one of the most prominent names in the technology sector, is ramping up investments in new data centers in order to keep pace with demand that is growing faster than its current facilities can sustain.

The clearest sign of this strategy comes from the company’s most recent job openings, which hint at where the next major poles of AI infrastructure could rise worldwide. Two markets in particular are pointing the way: Australia and Japan.

Anthropic’s hiring points to Australia and Japan

The company led by Dario Amodei currently has 13 open positions in the department that oversees its computing infrastructure, the division responsible for designing and managing its data facilities. Eight of these involve Australia and Japan: six on Australian soil, aimed at data center engineers and operators, and two in Japan, one focused on securing agreements with new facilities and one for an engineer specialized in electrical systems. As far back as April, the group had already launched a similar recruitment drive in Australia, a sign of long-standing planning rather than an improvised move.

The push abroad comes on the heels of a series of investments announced in the United States and Europe to expand the computing capacity needed to develop large language models. The same pattern had already appeared in the European market, where the company had created a dedicated role to negotiate new capacity. The choice of Asia-Pacific thus extends to another continent an expansion trajectory that is by now well established, advancing in parallel across several regions of the planet.

Growth is straining the infrastructure

In recent months, the use of Anthropic’s AI solutions, by businesses and consumers alike, has grown at a very rapid pace and ended up testing the company’s facilities. In a post published in April, the technology firm admitted that Claude’s record-breaking growth was putting its infrastructure under pressure, with an unprecedented increase in the number of users compromising the platform’s reliability and performance and making a rapid expansion of processing capacity necessary.

Even tensions with the US government over AI regulation have not slowed the company down. In May, Anthropic raised fresh capital, reaching a valuation of roughly $965 billion, a figure that places it among the most highly valued private companies in the world and just short of the symbolic trillion-dollar threshold. Over the same period, its annualized revenue is said to have topped $47 billion, sharply up from the roughly $9 billion recorded at the end of 2025. Numbers that explain the urgency with which the group is seeking new productive capacity.

Why Anthropic chose these countries

The job listings make Anthropic’s intention to expand its regional presence quickly very clear. One of the open positions in Australia refers to a “rapid expansion of AI computing capacity in the region” and to managing energy projects on the order of several hundred megawatts, figures that hint at the scale of the facilities the company intends to build in the coming years.

Australia stands out as a particularly attractive destination thanks to its ample availability of land and its high potential for renewable energy production. Added to these factors is a political and regulatory environment considered stable, a condition prized by anyone planning multi-year investments. A further advantage is its distance from the world’s main conflict zones, a factor that reduces the risks to sensitive infrastructure such as data centers and safeguards their operational continuity.

According to analysts, Australia’s membership in the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance (the intelligence-sharing partnership between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) would further bolster the confidence of US companies, which see the country as a safe location to host the infrastructure for increasingly strategic models. One issue remains unresolved, however, on the copyright front: several experts believe that Australia’s current legal framework could expose companies in the sector to legal disputes over the use of protected content to train their systems.

The race for energy and Japan’s role

Anthropic has confirmed that it will continue to expand its infrastructure on an international scale, concentrating its investments in democratic countries with regulatory systems favorable to projects of this size and with reliable supply chains for the hardware and the networks that power the facilities. The selection of territories therefore follows criteria that are as much technical as geopolitical, a balance that weighs ever more heavily in the decisions of those who build data centers.

The sector’s growth is driving up demand for skilled personnel in parallel: technical profiles specialized in designing and managing data centers are increasingly sought after, and the salaries on offer are steadily rising. A concrete example comes from London, where a position to develop agreements with European data centers offered a salary of between £225,000 and £270,000 a year (about $304,000 to $365,000), a clear signal of the competition underway for the most experienced profiles.

Japan, too, is confirming itself as a strategic market, thanks to an evolving power grid and robust government support for the development of national AI infrastructure. The interest is not limited to Anthropic: Microsoft has announced a $10 billion investment dedicated to artificial intelligence in the country, while GMI Cloud has unveiled a $12 billion project to build sovereign infrastructure. Tokyo is thus positioning itself to become a reference hub for the entire region.

Editor’s note

This article was originally published in Italian on money.it by P. F. on June 30, 2026 as «Australia e Giappone saranno i nuovi poli dell’AI globale. Le nuove assunzioni di Anthropic lo confermano». It has been translated and adapted for an international audience by the Money.it International desk.