"Spending money to buy roads": Proactively committing to bear the additional electricity expenses in exchange for the rapid expansion rights of the data center.

In the context of the Trump administration's focus on ensuring that residents' electricity prices do not rise significantly, Anthropic states that it will absorb the cost increase of electricity fees due to data center operations. This AI startup, supported by Amazon.com, Inc. and Alphabet's Alphabet Inc. Class C, will bear all the costs of grid upgrades required for data center interconnection, and the related expenses will be paid in the form of a monthly electricity surcharge. The company also stated that it will purchase additional electricity and protect consumers from price hikes. Anthropic will drive the launch of new power generation projects to match the electricity demand of its data centers. In areas where new power generation projects have not been interconnected, the company will work with power companies and external experts to assess and bear the demand-side electricity price impacts caused by data centers. Furthermore, the company revealed that it is investing in deploying power limitation systems to reduce data center energy consumption during peak periods, while also implementing electricity grid optimization tools, both of which will help lower end users' electricity costs. Anthropic also stated that it will invest in local communities, claiming that its current data center projects will create hundreds of permanent jobs and thousands of construction jobs. The company also pledged to address environmental impacts, including the use of water-efficient cooling technology. Regarding the leasing of existing data center capacity, the company stated that they are working to offset the impact of their own workload on electricity prices. Anthropic pointed out that training a single cutting-edge AI model will soon require gigawatt-level electricity, and the US AI industry will need at least 50 gigawatts of power capacity in the coming years. "The US must quickly build new data centers to maintain its competitiveness in AI and national security, but AI companies should not let US consumers foot the bill," Anthropic stated. Last month, President Trump stated that he was unwilling for the American people to bear higher electricity costs due to data centers, and mentioned that Microsoft Corporation (MSFT.US) would make adjustments to ensure that people do not have to pay for their electricity usage. Microsoft Corporation CEO Brad Smith also announced the company's commitments, including investments in the communities where they have self-built, self-operated, and self-running data centers. Earlier this week, reports indicated that the Trump administration has drafted a proposal requiring energy-intensive data centers to not raise residents' electricity prices, not exacerbate water supply pressures, not affect grid reliability, and clearly stating that demand-side enterprises bear the cost of building new infrastructure. The proposal is still in draft form and may be adjusted, reportedly designed as a voluntary agreement between Trump and major tech companies and data center developers. In November 2025, NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA.US) and Microsoft Corporation pledged to invest up to $10 billion and $5 billion, respectively, in Anthropic. Microsoft Corporation has already invested over $13 billion in competing AI startup OpenAI, holding nearly 27% of the company. It is understood that the latest round of funding for Anthropic is expected to exceed $20 billion. The developer of Claude ChatGPT and Siasun Robot & Automation has estimated that its revenue could reach as high as $18 billion by 2026.