Anthropic could seek a valuation of about $2 trillion in its planned IPO

Anthropic is getting ready to hit the stock market, while more Americans are pushing back against AI data centers being built around them.

People are also growing uneasy about AI, a pushback that is expected to show up as a serious risk in the company’s IPO papers.

Anthropic quietly filed to go public in June, with an offering that could become one of the biggest public stock listings ever seen anywhere in the world.

Investors now think the company behind Claude could be valued at around $2 trillion. Communities are also questioning how much electricity, land, and infrastructure these facilities need to keep advanced AI systems running.

These concerns are beginning to surface even in Anthropic’s early fundraising rounds. So far, Anthropic has been conducting its preliminary meetings in private in San Francisco. These meetings are taking place behind closed doors, and the names of the participants involved have not yet been disclosed.

Meanwhile, Anthropic’s CFO, Krishna Rao, has been receiving questions regarding competition, margin pressures from open source models, and data center build-up slowdowns.

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