Anthropic Books Colossal $81B Loss, Warns of Data Center Backlash as Amodei Siblings Draw Modest Salaries
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic booked a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 — mostly from accounting charges — as it warned that growing opposition to data centers could threaten its business.
The San Francisco-based company, which is preparing for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at as much as $2 trillion, voiced caution about the growing movement of anti-data center and anti-AI voters.
Resistance to data centers has “become more organized and coordinated across jurisdictions,” Anthropic said in the filing viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
The company, led by CEO Dario Amodei, said its high public profile “may draw particular attention to projects associated with us.”
Anthropic said most of its data center capacity is located in the US, although it has signed letters of intent to develop additional facilities overseas. Domestically, recent months have seen public opinion souring on AI and protests opposing data center construction. (Read more from “Anthropic Books Colossal $81B Loss, Warns of Data Center Backlash as Amodei Siblings Draw Modest Salaries” HERE)
