Press release ·
Anthropic opens its first office in Spain and puts a former Google executive in charge to promote safe AI
Original title, in Spanish: “Anthropic abre su primera oficina en España y pone a una exdirectiva de Google al frente para impulsar una IA segura”
- Publication
- El Español (Spain) · subscribers only
- Author
- Laura Broche
- Published on
- 17 September 2026 · read in the page structured data · updated on 17 September 2026
Summary
Anthropic has opened its first site in Spain, in Madrid, the seventh European office of the company behind Claude. Cristina Pitarch, a former executive at Google and Salesforce, takes charge of the Spanish market as country manager. According to Anthropic's Índice Económico, Claude usage in Spain is 2.7 times higher than the country's population would suggest. The article cites several large companies that already use it: Santander, CaixaBank, BBVA, Telefónica, Konecta, Amadeus, Ferrovial and Indra. Telefónica uses Claude and Claude Code to speed up software development and strengthen its cybersecurity, while Ferrovial uses it to support the design of civil engineering projects and automate technical tasks. Anthropic is also working with ISDI Business School to support a community of Claude ambassadors in Madrid.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on El Español →Figures cited
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2.7 times
Claude usage in Spain relative to expected population share
Spain
« el uso de Claude en el país es 2,7 veces superior al que correspondería por el tamaño de su población »
Source: Índice Económico de Anthropic
Classification
- Country
- Spain
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · Construction, civil engineering, real estate · All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- ISDI Business School (cited), Indra (deploys AI), Amadeus (deploys AI), Telefónica (deploys AI), Santander (deploys AI), Konecta (deploys AI), CaixaBank (deploys AI), BBVA (deploys AI), Anthropic (supplier), Ferrovial (deploys AI)
- Keywords
- claude, AI adoption, large companies, Spain, cybersecurity, software development
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to El Español and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.