Anthropic Plans to Expand Revolving Credit Facility to Over $10 Billion
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Anthropic is planning to expand its revolving credit facility from $2.5 billion to over $10 billion, with banks competing to participate — not for the lending fees, but to secure underwriting roles in the company's anticipated IPO.
How is the deal structured, and who is involved?
Anthropic secured a $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit facility — a bank credit line it can draw on and repay repeatedly — last year. The new target is over $10 billion, at least a fourfold increase.
Under the current invitation, the most committed banks would each pledge roughly $1.25 billion; the second tier about $1 billion; others at $750 million or below.
Last year's lenders included Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Barclays, Citi, RBC, and MUFG. This means → virtually every top-tier Wall Street bank is already at the table.
Why are banks so eager to lend?
The core motive is not loan interest — it is securing a role in the IPO. This means → the larger a bank's credit commitment, the higher it ranks for underwriting fees when the IPO launches.
There is a clear precedent: SpaceX expanded its revolving facility from $1.5 billion to $5 billion in May this year, then moved toward a record IPO. The bank lineup for the credit and the IPO largely overlapped.
In plain terms = banks are lending now to "buy a ticket" — the loan is the means, the IPO is the prize.
What does Anthropic need this much capital for?
The biggest driver is data centers. Morgan Stanley is leading talks to provide $15 billion in loans to data-center developer Nexus Data Centers for a large campus in Texas, including a 1.6-gigawatt natural-gas power plant.
Anthropic would be the project's anchor tenant. Google plans to backstop billions of dollars in lease and power-purchase obligations and is expected to take roughly 20% equity in the project.
Anthropic aims to secure at least 10 gigawatts of data-center capacity over the coming years and has signed more than a dozen preliminary leases with U.S. developers. This means → its funding needs now extend well beyond model-training compute into locking down power and physical infrastructure.
How fast is revenue growing?
As of late July, Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate — ARR, a projection of full-year revenue based on recent performance — exceeded $6.5 billion, up from $4.7 billion in May and roughly $900 million at the end of 2025.
In plain terms = revenue velocity has multiplied more than 7× in under two years. But ARR reflects recent momentum, not the actual revenue collected over the past 12 months.
At its May fundraise, Anthropic reached a post-money valuation of $96.5 billion, making it one of the world's most valuable startups. The continued revenue surge underpins its ability to negotiate large-scale debt ahead of an IPO.
What does this signal for the IPO timeline?
Anthropic is already working with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan on its IPO. Expanding the credit facility is itself a step in that preparation.
Global IPO proceeds this year have reached $257 billion (excluding SPACs), the highest single-year total since 2021. This reflects a widening capital-markets window — Anthropic's timing is no coincidence.
This means → the final size of the credit facility and the ranking of participating banks will be key signals for when, and at what scale, Anthropic goes public.
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