Anthropic is accelerating across the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen the computing capacity it devotes to artificial intelligence. The US company, one of the most prominent names in the tech sector, is multiplying its investments in new data centers with the goal of keeping up with demand that is growing faster than its current facilities can sustain.

The clearest signal of this strategy comes from the company’s most recent job postings, which hint at where the next major hubs of AI infrastructure could emerge worldwide. Two specific markets point the way: Australia and Japan.

Anthropic’s hiring targets Australia and Japan

The company led by Dario Amodei currently has 13 open positions in the department that handles its computing infrastructure, the division responsible for designing and managing its data facilities. Eight of those roles concern Australia and Japan: six in Australia, 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. Back in 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 follows a series of investments announced in the United States and Europe to expand the computing capacity needed to develop large language models (LLMs). The same pattern had already appeared in the European market, where the company had created a dedicated role to negotiate new capacity. Its move into Asia-Pacific thus extends to another continent an expansion strategy that is now well established and advancing in parallel across multiple parts of the world.

Growth is straining the infrastructure

In recent months, use of Anthropic’s AI products, by businesses and consumers alike, has grown at a very rapid pace and has ended up testing the company’s infrastructure. In a post published in April, the firm admitted that Claude’s record-breaking growth was putting its infrastructure under strain, with an unprecedented surge in users compromising the platform’s reliability and performance and forcing a rapid scale-up of processing capacity.

Even tensions with the US government over AI regulation have not slowed the company down. In May, Anthropic raised fresh capital at 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 $1 trillion threshold. Over the same period, its annualized revenue reportedly surpassed $47 billion, sharply up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025. Those numbers explain the urgency with which the group is chasing new production capacity.

Why Anthropic chose these countries

The job postings spell out Anthropic’s intention to expand its regional presence quickly. One of the openings 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 plans to build in the coming years.

Australia stands out as a particularly attractive destination thanks to its abundant land and high potential for renewable-energy production. Add to that a political and regulatory environment considered stable, a condition valued by anyone planning multi-year investments. A further plus 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 United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) would further bolster the confidence of American firms, which see the country as a safe place to host the infrastructure behind increasingly strategic models. One issue remains unresolved, however, on the copyright front: several experts believe Australia’s current legislation could expose the sector’s companies 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 keep expanding its infrastructure on an international scale, concentrating investment in democratic countries with regulatory systems favorable to projects of this size and with reliable supply chains for the hardware and networks that power the facilities. The choice of locations therefore follows criteria that are as much geopolitical as technical, a balance that weighs ever more heavily in the decisions of those building data centers.

The sector’s growth is driving up demand for skilled workers in parallel: technical profiles specialized in designing and managing data centers are increasingly sought after, and the pay on offer is steadily rising. A concrete example comes from London, where a position developing agreements with European data centers offered a salary of between £225,000 and £270,000 a year (about €261,000-313,000, or roughly $282,000-338,000), a clear sign of the competition underway for the most experienced profiles.

Japan, too, is confirming its status as a strategic market, thanks to an evolving power grid and robust government support for the development of national AI infrastructure. The interest goes well beyond Anthropic: Microsoft has announced a $10 billion investment in artificial intelligence in the country, while GMI Cloud has unveiled a $12 billion project to build a 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.