Surafell Kebede, a former Meta employee, has recently joined Anthropic’s team. He is now working on the company’s infrastructure supply chain, alongside Sham Parmar, another executive from Meta’s supply chain department. – Anthropic. In the past, Kebede served as the manager of performance and capacity at Meta, where they were also responsible for the supply chain lead (AGI) for large clusters for a duration of five and a half years.
Additionally, Kebede has held supply chain positions at both Apple and Phillips 66, an oil company. Recently, Anthropic has rapidly expanded its data center team. The corporation has vowed to allocate $50 billion for data centers in the United States through an alliance with Fluidstack.
Moreover, in May, a partnership was established between Anthropic and SpaceX for renting 300MW of data center facilities at the xAI data centers. Reports indicate that Anthropic has signed over a dozen letters of intent with various US data center developers. The company has secured deals worth $11.6bn with Akamai, $35bn with Lambda, $45bn with Nscale, and $19bn with TeraWulf.
Over the past 11 months, until September 15, 2026, the firm has secured approximately 517 billion dollars in contracts for computer capacity. On the twelfth day of October, two thousand and twenty-six
