Anthropic signs lease for first Canadian data center with EverWind

Anthropic is heading to Atlantic Canada. On October 16, 2026, the AI company signed a long-term lease with EverWind Fuels for capacity at a new data center campus in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia. It is Anthropic’s first data center deal in Canada. The initial lease runs for at least 20 years. The facility will help power Anthropic’s Claude models. It is meant to serve demand from Canadian users and from customers around the world. The details: megawatts, money and a two-decade commitment The lease covers the first phase of EverWind’s Point Tupper campus. That phase is planned at 95 MW of capacity and is targeted to come online by late 2027. The full campus is aiming for a total of 420 MW by 2028. That puts Anthropic’s initial slice at less than a quarter of the planned buildout. The broader EverWind project carries a price tag above C$10 billion. It has been described as the largest private investment Nova Scotia has ever seen. Most of that money is going into the servers’ home. More than C$8 billion is earmarked for the data center itself, while C$2 billion is allocated to onshore wind energy projects that support it. Jobs, GDP and the ratepayer question The project is expected to cr...