Reuters reports Anthropic signed a lease with EverWind for data center capacity at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia.
Reuters reports Anthropic’s lease with EverWind covers data center capacity at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia. A company executive said it marks the Claude maker’s first data center agreement in Canada.
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Anthropic is taking its first direct step into Canadian data-center capacity. The company signed a lease with EverWind for space at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Reuters reported, citing a company executive who described it as the Claude maker’s first data-center agreement in Canada.
EverWind’s announcement says it reached a long-term lease with an unnamed “leading frontier AI developer” for the campus’s initial phase. Reuters identified that customer as Anthropic.
EverWind says the broader Nova Scotia project would involve more than C$10 billion in private investment. More than C$8 billion would go toward developing and financing the data-center campus, while C$2 billion would support four planned onshore wind projects.
The company plans to start with a 95-megawatt phase in late 2027, followed by a 325 MW expansion targeted for 2028. Those dates remain subject to commercial, technical and regulatory conditions. The campus would reach 420 MW at full buildout, and EverWind says the expansion will not connect to the grid until required studies and approvals are complete.
EverWind projects roughly 2,000 construction positions during the staged buildout and 215 permanent operating positions across the campus and wind portfolio. Those figures, like the investment and schedule, are company projections rather than completed outcomes.
Large data centers have drawn scrutiny for their electricity and water demands and the pressure they can place on local infrastructure. EverWind says it will pay for connection, network-upgrade and other electricity-system costs attributable to the project so they are not passed on to existing Nova Scotia ratepayers.
The company also says the campus will use a closed-loop water-glycol cooling system, relying mainly on air cooling and adding water assistance during the hottest weather. Under its current design assumptions, the initial phase would use about 100,000 liters of water per day. A completed 420 MW campus would average about 500,000 liters per day, which EverWind estimates at roughly 1% of Landrie Lake’s identified daily safe yield.
Jacob Glick, Anthropic’s head of public policy for Canada, told Reuters that the company would protect ratepayers and water resources while ensuring local communities benefit. The project is another sign of Anthropic’s rising infrastructure needs: Reuters reported that the company spent $7.33 billion on computing and infrastructure in 2025, three times its 2024 total.
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