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“US-controlled, US-run, US-cloud. A Dublin desk, not an EU company.”

Operating HQ
🇺🇸 San Francisco, USA
where it's run
Legal domicile
🇺🇸 Delaware, USA
where it's incorporated
Valuation
~$965B
Employees
~2,500
Founded
2021
EU controller
🇮🇪 Dublin
22/100
Sovereign: Not
Control ↑
20
Data →
24

22 = midpoint of Control 20 & Data 24

ConfidenceHigh (82%)

Sovereignty Quadrant

Control ↑ who owns & governs the company  ·  Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.

Where your data lives → Who controls the company → 7 companies · fully non-EU (0/0) Google — Data 16, Control 14 TikTok — Data 32, Control 24 Youtube — Data 14, Control 16 Ionos — Data 90, Control 90 Disneyplus — Data 16, Control 12 Telegram — Data 34, Control 14 Carrefour — Data 100, Control 32 Corriere — Data 100, Control 100 Microsoft — Data 26, Control 14 Amazon — Data 14, Control 10 Amazon — Data 66, Control 0 Reddit — Data 14, Control 10 Netflix — Data 24, Control 20 LinkedIn — Data 14, Control 16 Reuters — Data 26, Control 0 Pinterest — Data 12, Control 12 Discord — Data 16, Control 20 AliExpress — Data 18, Control 12 Twitch — Data 18, Control 16 Samsung — Data 62, Control 4 Canva — Data 24, Control 20 Spotify — Data 30, Control 68 Apple — Data 16, Control 16 GitHub — Data 16, Control 10 Uber — Data 16, Control 16 Salesforce — Data 20, Control 14 Deepl — Data 70, Control 78 Airbnb — Data 18, Control 18 Shopify — Data 18, Control 18 Mastercard — Data 36, Control 16 Dropbox — Data 14, Control 10 HubSpot — Data 24, Control 10 Notion — Data 22, Control 16 Stripe — Data 30, Control 30 Zalando — Data 52, Control 88 Figma — Data 18, Control 10 SAP SE — Data 68, Control 78 Atlassian — Data 18, Control 18 Proton — Data 72, Control 54 Miro — Data 100, Control 44 Klarna — Data 44, Control 42 Ecosia — Data 60, Control 92 Zoom — Data 20, Control 14 Adyen — Data 84, Control 84 GitLab — Data 26, Control 14 Slack — Data 14, Control 20 Hetzner — Data 84, Control 96 Deezer — Data 62, Control 66 Typeform — Data 100, Control 52 OVHcloud — Data 82, Control 94 Tutanota — Data 100, Control 100 BlaBlaCar — Data 54, Control 76 Qwant — Data 56, Control 88 Bitwarden — Data 28, Control 20 Contentful — Data 34, Control 48 Personio — Data 34, Control 58 Ikea — Data 34, Control 100 Whatsapp — Data 14, Control 12 Instagram — Data 28, Control 22 X — Data 14, Control 16 Avast — Data 60, Control 0 Paypal — Data 24, Control 32 Kaspersky — Data 56, Control 0 Dailymotion — Data 100, Control 74 Snapchat — Data 12, Control 14 OpenAI — Data 18, Control 14 Aleph Alpha — Data 88, Control 80 Mistral AI — Data 74, Control 80 24 20 Anthropic
Anthropic — verified peers — automated estimate (0–50 pillars, normalized)

Every number below traces to 13 sourced facts across 9 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 3 open questions hold confidence at 82% — they lower confidence, never the score.

Control ↑

Who legally and economically controls the company

20/100
7 facts · 6 sources · mixed confidence
Legal & Jurisdiction
18

Incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation in Delaware (Jan 2021) and operated from San Francisco. The main operating entity is American; the only EU legal nexus is Anthropic Ireland, Limited, which acts as data controller for EEA/UK/Swiss users. EU law reaches the Irish entity for GDPR purposes, but the company is incorporated and run outside the EU.

Why 18? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Anthropic, PBC — Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

Entity type and incorporation

OpenCorporates / Anthropic PBC filings · as of 2026-06-12

Anthropic Ireland, Limited, Dublin 4

EEA/UK/Swiss data controller is an Irish entity

Anthropic Privacy Policy · as of 2026-06-12

San Francisco, California (500 Howard St)

Operating headquarters

Wikipedia (Anthropic) · as of 2026-06-12

Control & Ownership
22

Voting control rests with the US founders and the Long-Term Benefit Trust, which now elects a majority of the board. Amazon (largest investor, capped below ~33%) and Google/Alphabet (~14%, capped at 15%) hold large economic stakes but with no voting rights and no board seats. Both control and economic majority are US-centered; the company is private with a confidential US IPO filing reported, so any future listing would be US, not EU.

Why 22? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
LTBT elects a majority of the board (Class T stock)

Voting control sits with founders and the Long-Term Benefit Trust

Anthropic — The Long-Term Benefit Trust · as of 2026-06-12

Up to ~$33B committed; no voting rights, no board seats

Amazon is largest investor but non-voting

DatacenterDynamics / Spyglass reporting · as of 2026-06-12

~14% (capped 15%); no voting rights, board seats or observer

Google/Alphabet stake is non-voting

DatacenterDynamics · as of 2026-06-12

~$965B post-money (Series H, May 2026)

Latest private valuation

TechCrunch · as of 2026-05-28

Data →

Where your data lives and who can reach it

24/100
6 facts · 5 sources · mixed confidence
Data & Infrastructure
18

Per Anthropic's own privacy policy, user data is transferred to servers primarily in the US. Claude is trained and served on US hyperscaler infrastructure — AWS Trainium (Project Rainier, $100B+ AWS commitment) and Google Cloud TPUs — both subject to the US CLOUD Act. EU data residency exists as a contractual option but runs on those same US-owned clouds in EU regions (e.g., AWS Dublin/Frankfurt, Bedrock/Vertex), so there is no EU-owned infrastructure.

Why 18? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Primarily US servers; transfers under SCCs/adequacy

Default storage/processing location

Anthropic Privacy Policy · as of 2026-06-12

AWS Trainium (Project Rainier) + Google Cloud TPUs

Compute runs on US hyperscaler chips

Anthropic — Amazon/Google compute partnerships · as of 2026-06-12

$100B+ committed to AWS over 10 years; up to 1M Google TPUs

Scale of US cloud dependence

Anthropic / CNBC reporting · as of 2026-06-12

Operations & People
32

Leadership (CEO Dario Amodei, President Daniela Amodei), the bulk of the ~2,500-person workforce, and reporting currency (USD) are US-centered. There is a real and fast-growing EU operational footprint — Dublin EMEA HQ plus Paris, Munich, London, Zurich offices, with ~300 Irish staff and 200 more roles planned to 2027 — but it is commercial/operations, not the company's center of gravity.

Why 32? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
San Francisco; US founders Dario & Daniela Amodei

Headquarters and leadership

Wikipedia (Anthropic) · as of 2026-06-12

~2,500 employees (2026), US-centered

Workforce scale

Wikipedia (Anthropic) · as of 2026-06-12

Dublin EMEA HQ; ~300 Irish staff, +200 roles to 2027

EU operational footprint

RTÉ / IDA Ireland · as of 2026-03-13

Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →

What we don’t know 3 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
  • ?

    Exact percentage of EU users whose Claude data is actually stored in-region vs. defaulting to US servers

    EU residency is a contractual opt-in on US clouds; without uptake figures the real data-location picture is uncertain and the infra score could move modestly.

  • ?

    Precise Amazon equity percentage and the full voting/governance terms post-IPO

    Amazon's stake is reported as mid-teens to ~high-20s% and 'capped below ~33%'; exact figures and any change in rights at IPO affect the ownership read.

  • ?

    Whether any Anthropic-controlled (non-hyperscaler) data centers exist in the EU

    All identified compute is on AWS/Google; confirmation of EU-owned infrastructure would be needed before raising the infra score, and none was found.

EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens

SEAL was designed to assess cloud service providers; applied here as an analogous mapping for an AI vendor, not a formal certification.

Strategic

US-headquartered, US-controlled frontier AI lab; EU is a growth market, not a strategic locus of decision-making.

weak

Legal & jurisdictional

Delaware PBC run from San Francisco; EU reach only via Anthropic Ireland, Ltd as GDPR data controller.

weak

Data & AI

Data defaults to US servers; EU residency is a contractual option on US-owned clouds, with US CLOUD Act exposure.

weak

Operational

Real and growing EU operations (Dublin EMEA HQ + Paris/Munich/London/Zurich), but leadership and bulk of staff are US-based.

moderate

Supply chain

Compute supply chain anchored on US hyperscalers and chips (AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, Nvidia).

weak

Technological

Core models, weights and IP developed and controlled in the US; no EU technological sovereignty.

weak

Security & compliance

Offers GDPR-oriented terms, EU data residency options, SCCs and a trust/subprocessor program; underlying providers remain US-jurisdiction.

moderate

Environmental sustainability

No EU-specific, verifiable sustainability disclosure reviewed for this profile.

not assessed
EU alternatives
🇫🇷 Mistral AI mistral.ai EU-controlled

EU-incorporated and EU-run frontier lab (Paris); open-weight and commercial models with EU-hosting options — the closest sovereign peer to Anthropic.

🇩🇪 Aleph Alpha aleph-alpha.com with caveats

German AI vendor focused on sovereign/on-prem and public-sector deployments; smaller scale and narrower model range than Claude.

🇺🇸 OpenAI openai.com not an EU alternative

Listed only as a like-for-like capability comparison; same US-control, US-cloud profile — not an EU-sovereignty improvement over Anthropic.

How the method works

Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.

Spotted an error? Every claim is sourced — challenge it and we correct the record.
  • 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).

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Verified 2026-06-12 · Human + AI joint review (sources independently checked) · Methodology