What happened: Anthropic has signed a long-term lease for data center capacity at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, in its first data center agreement in Canada. Why it matters: a frontier AI lab is anchoring what its partner calls the largest privately funded investment in the province’s history — but Anthropic has signed for less than a quarter of the planned campus.
Point Tupper, Nova Scotia — October 16, 2026
What Anthropic actually signed
Anthropic is taking the first phase of EverWind’s planned Point Tupper campus: 95 megawatts of capacity on a lease running at least 20 years, according to Reuters and CBC News. That first phase is due in late 2027 and will run on power already available on Nova Scotia’s grid. Anthropic says the site will power its Claude models, and Canadian Press reporting notes that Canada is the sixth-largest market for Claude worldwide. The value of the lease was not disclosed.
Jacob Glick, Anthropic’s head of public policy for Canada, said the company intends to protect electricity ratepayers and water resources and to make sure local communities benefit — the two pressure points that follow almost every large data center announcement.
The much bigger plan around it
EverWind’s full proposal is far larger than the slice Anthropic has taken. The company plans to spend more than C$10 billion across a 420 MW data center campus and four onshore wind farms totalling about 650 MW, and it describes the package as the largest privately funded investment in Nova Scotia’s history. Land clearing at the site has already started, and EverWind says it will pay for the grid connections and upgrades its campus requires.
The rest is still a plan. A 325 MW expansion is targeted for 2028, but it has no named tenant yet, still needs financing, and cannot connect to the grid until provincial system studies and approvals are complete. The wind farms will not be ready when the first hall opens in late 2027. A consortium led by Membertou First Nation is negotiating an ownership stake in the campus, and First Nations partners already hold a majority stake in the wind projects.
Why it matters
Anthropic’s infrastructure bill is climbing fast: Reuters reports the company spent $7.33 billion on computing and infrastructure last year, roughly triple its 2024 figure. A signed 20-year lease from a tenant like that is what makes a speculative campus financeable — lenders and pension funds, which EverWind says it will now approach, lend against contracted rent, not press releases. Read it the other way, though, and the risk is plain: about three-quarters of the announced capacity has no tenant, no financing and no grid approval yet. The Anthropic phase is real. The other 325 MW is a bet that someone else shows up.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Anthropic’s first Canadian data center?
At Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, on EverWind’s planned data center campus. It is Anthropic’s first data center agreement in Canada.
How much capacity did Anthropic lease?
The first phase: 95 MW, on a lease of at least 20 years. The rent was not disclosed.
When does it start operating?
The first phase is due in late 2027, running initially on existing grid power. The planned wind farms will not be finished by then.
How big is the full EverWind campus?
420 MW in total if the 325 MW expansion proceeds. That expansion is targeted for 2028 but still needs a tenant, financing and grid approval.
Sources: Reuters, CBC News, The Canadian Press, EverWind