New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced Wednesday it will absorb electricity price increases that consumers face due to the company's datacenter operations, amid growing concerns about AI infrastructure's impact on utility costs. It did not specify any particular datacenter in its blog post.

This comes as AI companies race to build massive datacenters requiring unprecedented power capacity. According to Anthropic, training a single frontier AI model will soon require gigawatts of power, with the U.S. AI sector needing at least 50 gigawatts of capacity over the next several years.

Under the policy, Anthropic said it will cover 100% of grid upgrade costs needed to connect its datacenters, including infras...