Trump mandates self-powered data centers as Anthropic defends safety and China ban
On October 21, 2026, President Donald Trump ordered large U. S. data centers to generate their own electricity and to pay financial dividends to the communities in which they operate, and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei defended the company's safety record and its ban on sales to Chinese state-controlled firms, according to Fox News. On October 6, 2026, independent analyst New Constructs said Anthropic's planned IPO was unlikely to justify a $2 trillion valuation and projected a possible market value as low as $144 billion, according to The Next Web.
Later that month, Anthropic announced it would allocate an initial 5 % of its shares to a public-benefit limited liability company, with the option to increase the stake as its valuation rose, as reported by CNBC and echoed by the BBC. The pledge sparked reactions from industry figures, including Elon Musk, who suggested the shares be given directly to the public, according to Business Insider and Fox Business. At the same time, the company faced cloud-capacity challenges as its spending rose, TechCrunch reported, and it prepared to file an S-1 prospectus as early as the following, Yahoo Finance noted.
