Anthropic is seeking to hire a senior executive to secure data centre capacity across Europe.

The San Francisco-headquartered AI company is viewing to appoint a London-based “Transaction Principal” to lead commercial sourcing and neobtainediations for its European compute capacity, according to a report put out by CNBC on Thursday.

The position is described as being “critical” to powering the company’s next-generation AI systems, the report added.

The hiring effort comes as Anthropic views to extfinish its aggressive infrastructure buildout beyond the US, where it has recently inked multiple data centre agreements.

Last April, the Claude chatbot-buildr declared it would create more than 100 roles in Europe, including in Dublin and London. It also appointed Guillaume Princen as its Europe, Middle East and Africa head.

The London-based role offers up to £270,000 and will focus on key European hubs — Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin — as well as emerging regions, including the Nordics, where lower energy costs are attracting AI infrastructure projects.