Anthropic is planting a very large flag in Manhattan. The AI research company behind the Claude model family is leasing a 466,000 square foot building at 330 Hudson Street in the Hudson Square neighborhood, a roughly 30x expansion of its existing New York City footprint.

The company plans to double its NYC headcount to 1,000 employees by the end of 2026, with enough room for approximately 1,700 desks. New York already serves as Anthropic’s second-largest office behind its San Francisco headquarters.

A company flush with capital and growing fast

Anthropic closed a $30B Series G round in February 2026 at a $380B post-money valuation. Then, just three months later, it followed up with a $65B Series H.

Amazon and Google remain among Anthropic’s most prominent backers. The move into 330 Hudson Street is expected to begin later this summer.

The crypto connection: TeraWulf and tokenized shares

Anthropic has reportedly signed a $19B data-center agreement with TeraWulf, a publicly traded company that originally built its business around Bitcoin mining. TeraWulf has been pivoting to serve the high-performance computing demands of AI workloads.

Then there’s the tokenization angle. Synthetic tokenized stocks representing Anthropic’s private valuation have been trading on Solana under the ticker ANTHROPIC, giving people who can’t buy into a $380B private company through traditional means a way to trade synthetic versions of those shares on a blockchain.

What this means for crypto investors

The $19B TeraWulf deal reflects a broader pattern in which Bitcoin mining companies have been courting AI clients, with capital flowing into AI compute creating secondary demand for energy infrastructure that crypto miners pioneered.

The Anthropic synthetic shares on Solana represent an early example of tokenized assets providing access to private market valuations, with the pattern playing out specifically on Solana, which has positioned itself as a hub for real-world asset experimentation.

AI companies are competing with crypto miners for the same power resources, the same data center capacity, and in some cases the same geographic locations. Crypto infrastructure providers that land AI contracts may see their valuations surge, but those that don’t could find themselves competing for increasingly expensive power with deep-pocketed AI labs that can simply outbid them.