Anthropic May Store User Data in India as Local Claude Usage Surges
The Amazon-backed AI firm plans a Bengaluru office and explores data center partnerships as India becomes its second-largest market.
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Anthropic is weighing storing client data in Indian data centers, The Economic Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with its plans.
The AI developer is exploring partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which runs cloud infrastructure in Hyderabad and Mumbai. Enterprises in India currently access Claude models via Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.
Amazon, already one of Anthropic’s biggest backers, has sunk $8 billion into the firm, doubling its initial $4 billion commitment announced in late 2024. That investment grants Amazon prioritized access to Claude models and cloud services. This move mirrors India’s push for data localization.
OpenAI, Anthropic’s rival, has said it plans to build a “Stargate” data center in India with an investment close to $1 billion.
Anthropic will open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026, its second Asia‑Pacific hub after Tokyo. India has become its second largest market after the US, with around half of local Claude interactions tied to software development, UI work, and code debugging.
Guillaume Princen, Anthropic’s head of EMEA, earlier said in Bengaluru that technical usage of Claude in India is about 50% when compared with about 30 % globally. Princen added that startups account for about one‑third of Claude Code conversations there.
According to the company’s Economic Index, India contributed 7.2% of global Claude usage in September, while the US accounted for 21.6%.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 11 October. He said Claude Code usage in India has grown fivefold since June.
