Anthropic is planning an IPO at the worst possible time. Markets are falling, and candidates who advocated for tighter regulation of artificial intelligence won decisive victories in states like Michigan, Ohio, Texas and Georgia, where Democrats will now have Democratic governors. In 40 out of 41 cases, local communities opposed initiatives that involved aggressively building data centers wherever possible. —. CNBC OpenAI said it intends to continue investing heavily in AI infrastructure, despite growing public dissatisfaction with building new data centers (DPCs).