Anthropic IPO faces AI, data centre backlash: Can it still beat SpaceX record? | Company Business News
Anthropic IPO faces AI, data centre backlash: Can it still beat SpaceX record? | Company Business News
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Anthropic IPO faces AI, data centre backlash: Can it still beat SpaceX record?
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22 Aug 2026, 04:33 PM IST
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Anthropic IPO faces AI, data centre backlash: Can it still beat SpaceX record?
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22 Aug 2026, 04:33 PM IST
Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder of Anthropic
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Anthropic is preparing for one of the biggest IPOs ever while simultaneously warning prospective investors that the very technology driving its valuation is facing growing public opposition. In a report by
, people familiar with the development has confirmed that Dario Amodei-led company will list negative sentiment towards AI and data centre will be listed as a risk factor.
Anthropic is heading towards a potential $2 trillion public-market debut
, a valuation that could challenge SpaceX’s record for the biggest IPO. But as the Claude maker prepares to enter the public markets, it will also have to confront a less flattering reality: growing opposition to artificial intelligence and the data centres needed to power it.
That puts Anthropic in an unusual position: the same AI boom driving expectations for a record-breaking valuation is also creating one of the risks the company will have to disclose to potential shareholders.
Anthropic’s ‘$2 trillion’ IPO ambition
Anthropic has been holding preliminary “test-the-water” meetings with bankers and investors in San Francisco as it prepares for its public debut,
reported.
Investors are reportedly discussing an IPO valuation of around $2 trillion or more, according to the Financial Times. That would put Anthropic above SpaceX’s roughly $1.77 trillion valuation when Elon Musk’s company went public in June and potentially make the Claude maker the largest IPO ever.
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The $2 trillion figure, however, is investor speculation rather than a valuation formally announced by Anthropic. The company has not publicly set an IPO valuation or date.
Anthropic confidentially filed to go public in June 2026, givin