Anthropic in talks to lease hyperscale data center campus near Edmonton

The Claude developer is negotiating for an Alberta site shortly after signing its first Canadian data center lease in Nova Scotia Anthropic is negotiating to lease a hyperscale data center campus northeast of Edmonton, according to a post circulating on X. If a deal is signed, Alberta would become the second Canadian province to host compute capacity for the company behind the Claude models. For now, it remains a negotiation. No Anthropic data center project in the Edmonton area has been confirmed. From Nova Scotia to the prairies The Edmonton talks follow Anthropic’s first Canadian data center lease, announced on October 16, 2026. That agreement is with EverWind Fuels and covers a hyperscale facility in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia. The terms are long. Anthropic committed to a 20-year lease. The Point Tupper facility is scheduled to start operating in late 2027. Its initial capacity is 95 megawatts (MW), spread across a building footprint of 18,600 square meters. Point Tupper is also built to grow. Future expansion could take the full campus to 420 MW by 2028, more than four times the starting figure. EverWind is spending heavily to make that happen. The company announced an investme...