Anthropic plans to sign data center capacity deals in Europe and Australia, job listings reveal.

The previously unreported transaction principal roles come as the generative AI company increases its internal data center team, after previously working solely with cloud providers.

The company has only publicly announced data center plans in the US.

The roles will “lead RFP processes, negotiate term sheets, and serve as the central leader ensuring seamless stakeholder alignment from initial sourcing through lease execution.”

Leasing could include “managing complex digital infrastructure development activities to a construction‑ready state, through a developer or directly.”

Hires will “not [join] an established leasing org,” and instead are expected to be “building process alongside execution,” with the European role “doing so across multiple countries with distinct regulatory, power, and development dynamics.”

The new division will partner with the existing Compute Markets team, which manages the local market strategy and government relationships.

Specific locations being targeted are not shared, with the European role calling for” knowledge of the regional data center and development landscape — including established FLAP-D hubs and emerging markets like the Nordics and Southern Europe.” The job is based in London, UK.

The Australian role is based in Sydney and only focuses on the Australian market rather than the broader Oceania or APAC region.

The hires come as rival OpenAI pulled its Stargate UK and Norway projects in Europe. It has signed an MoU with NextDC for a US$4.5bn data center in Sydney.

Anthropic has historically relied on cloud providers, and has major Microsoft, AWS, and Google contracts – with all three hyperscalers investors ion the company.

In October, Google and Anthropic signed a 1GW+ cloud deal with access up to 1 million tensor processing units (TPUs), Google’s AI accelerator chip. This April, Anthropic signed with Broadcom and Google for the supply of 3.5GW-worth of TPUs.

At the same time, Anthropic has pledged to invest $50bn on data centers in the US with Fluidstack. Those same projects are being financially supported by Google.

Last week, DCD reported on the growth of Anthropic’s internal data center team, with a large number coming from Google.