New Anthropic job listing offers $405,000 to land natural gas for its post-IPO data center buildout

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Anthropic seeks a gas supply and transport lead as it expands its use of natural gas for data centers, part of its AI compute efforts.

Anthropic is getting deeper into gas-guzzling. The company posted a new job listing earlier this month for its first "Gas Supply and Transport Lead," tasked with getting natural gas to Anthropic data centers. The listing — with a salary range of $320,000 to $405,000 — comes as Anthropic approaches a gigantic initial public offering that will provide cash to buy more computing power. Natural gas has become a core part of AI's infrastructure buildout, despite emissions that clash with some tech giants' previous green-energy goals. Companies are increasingly using the fuel "behind-the-meter," or separate from the larger energy grid.

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