Anthropic starts leasing European data centers to secure its own compute

Anthropic is moving to lock down its own compute in Europe instead of leaning on cloud access. A new six-figure business development role is focused specifically on negotiating data center and capacity deals in-region, with chatter pointing to leasing efforts in places like London. That shifts Europe from a future market into an active front in the AI compute bottleneck, with Anthropic directly procuring infrastructure.