ASIA-PACIFIC — Anthropic is hiring for 13 roles in its compute department, with eight of these positions located in Australia or Japan, as the company expands its AI data center infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.

Six of the open roles in Australia are for data center engineers and operators. One position in Australia, posted in April, was for data center deal sourcing. An Anthropic job listing for a data center energy role in Australia mentions the company's rapidly expanding AI compute footprint across the region and notes the role involves leading multi-hundred megawatt procurement efforts.

For Japan, Anthropic is hiring for two specific roles: sourcing data center deals and a data center electrical engineer. An Anthropic job advertisement states that Japan has evolving grid infrastructure and government interest in domestic AI infrastructure. The company stated, "Growth at this pace places an inevitable strain on our infrastructure; our unprecedented consumer growth, in particular, has impacted reliability and performance."

Anthropic raised $65 billion in May at a valuation of $965 billion. The company noted, "We're very intentional about where we'll add capacity—partnering with democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale, and where the supply chain on which our compute depends—hardware, networking, and facilities—will be secure." The company's revenue run-rate reached $47 billion in May, up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Why It Matters

David Wroe, head of AI and Security Program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said Australia offers excess land, abundant renewable energy potential, and a stable political and regulatory environment. Wroe also noted Australia's distance from military threats, adding that such threats have proved a vulnerability for the Gulf states where two Amazon data centers were targeted early in the war in the Middle East.

Regarding Australia, Wroe said the main obstacle to a large-scale AI infrastructure buildout involves copyright laws, which could expose AI companies to lawsuits from rights holders. Some politicians in Australia are campaigning against copyright carve-outs for AI companies looking to use content to train commercial products.