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Anthropic Signs First Canadian Data Center Lease for Claude

Anthropic has signed a 20-year data center lease with Canada’s EverWind Fuels to support the operation of its Claude AI models. The deal, Anthropic’s first data center agreement in Canada, covers a 95-megawatt first-phase facility at the Point Tupper campus in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; the lease value was not disclosed. The first phase is slated to come online in late 2027, with a 325-megawatt expansion planned for 2028, bringing the campus to a planned 420 megawatts subject to commercial, technical and regulatory conditions.

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The notable signal is the pairing of AI compute demand with an energy developer rather than a conventional data-center operator, and the choice of Nova Scotia for a first Canadian footprint. The scale-up path from a first phase to a planned multi-hundred-megawatt campus is where execution risk concentrates, since the expansion is explicitly conditioned on commercial, technical and regulatory approvals. How those conditions clear — and whether the 2027 and 2028 timelines hold — is the open question for anyone tracking AI infrastructure buildout and the power deals underpinning it.

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