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Amazon positioned as core infrastructure partner for Anthropic's hyperscale expansion; Amodei warns data center deals may involve 'double counting' of announced capacity.
“One of your core partners has been Amazon it's been very important for your growth... we're going to need many gigawatts of power to train the models... I do get a bit worried when the press focuses too much on the building of the data centers and deals to build data centers. Some of these deals seem a little bit fishy. They seem like they're maybe double counting.”
Why it matters
AWS is explicitly identified as Anthropic's primary infrastructure partner for compute scale-up. Amodei's warning about industry-wide double-counting of data center capacity suggests announced capex figures may be inflated, implying real utilization rates and near-term ROI pressure for hyperscalers and data center developers.
Investment implication
AWS benefits from Anthropic's 10x revenue growth and power-intensive trajectory, but Amodei's skepticism of announced deals signals that many data center and chip capex announcements may be unrealistic or counted multiple times. This casts doubt on near-term capacity shortages and may pressurize pricing for compute rental.