What happened
A leaked S-1 shows Anthropic struggling to secure cloud capacity from AWS, Google, and Microsoft, which increasingly view the Claude-maker as a competitor; it believes it could spend more than $750 billion on cloud contracts.
Why it matters
Even that enormous spend is not enough, so Anthropic is leasing its own data centers and working with third-party operators it worries have a "limited operating history," potentially making them less reliable than the hyperscalers.
WHO IT HITSEnterprise buyers and investors weighing Anthropic's IPO face a company whose access to core cloud infrastructure is constrained by its own providers, which could affect reliability and cost of its Claude services.
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The leaked S-1 filing adds detail to numbers Reuters and the Financial Times reported in late September, when Anthropic's cloud spending plans first surfaced. What the filing makes clearer is the tension at the heart of Anthropic's position: it depends on the same hyperscalers that now view it as a rival, and even a commitment of more than $750 billion on cloud contracts is not enough to guarantee capacity.
The company's fallback is to lease its own data centers and work with third-party operators, but Anthropic itself flags those operators' "limited operating history" as a reliability concern compared with the hyperscalers. That concern sits alongside the financial picture in the filing: an $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of the year against $16.3 billion in revenue, with only two customers accounting for about a fifth of sales.
The filing also builds on previously reported catastrophic risk disclosures, warning that Anthropic could be held liable for damages from harmful AI behavior beyond its insurance coverage. Against that backdrop, the company told prospective investors that third-quarter revenue alone has reached $16.8 billion, up 45% from the previous quarter, as it reportedly targets a November IPO.
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