The world’s most valuable artificial intelligence company, Anthropic, wants to buy at least 1.4 gigawatts of capacity from Australian data centres that will cost as much as $US15 billion ($21.6 billion) to build, far exceeding previous estimates of its needs.

A tender issued confidentially by Anthropic, and obtained by Street Talk, shows it is aiming to start using at least 1 gigawatt of this capacity by the end of next year, after opening its Australian office earlier this year.

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