According to CNBC, Anthropic is preparing to go public and is expected to highlight growing public opposition to artificial intelligence and new data centers as a key risk in its IPO prospectus. The Claude maker has held preliminary test-the-water meetings with bankers and investors in San Francisco, where CFO Krishna Rao has faced questions about competition, margin pressure from open-source models, and the impact of any slowdown in data center construction. Anthropic confidentially filed to go public in June in what could be one of the largest IPOs on record, and investors are said to expect a valuation of about $2 trillion. Rival OpenAI is also pushing infrastructure partners to expand capacity quickly, while tech hyperscalers are spending hundreds of billions of dollars this year on capital expenditures for data centers and graphics processing units. A Gallup survey published in May found seven in 10 Americans opposed AI data center construction in their area, with nearly half strongly opposed and about a quarter in favor. The article also said Rep. Byron Donalds won Florida's Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday after proposing restrictions on data centers, while Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order the same day setting strict standards for data center development.