Anthropic has been named as the end user of the data centre EverWind Fuels is developing at its Point Tupper plant in Nova Scotia, Canada, CBC reported. Preconstruction work has begun at the site outside Port Hawkesbury in Cape Breton, and Anthropic has signed a 20 year lease for a facility EverWind will build and operate.
EverWind had named its customer only as a leading frontier AI developer leasing capacity from an initial phase offering 95 megawatts by late 2027, with a further 325 megawatts aimed for 2028. The campus is expected to draw 10 billion Canadian dollars of private investment, 8 billion for the data centre and 2 billion for EverWind’s onshore wind portfolio in the province. The site, a former oil refinery terminal acquired from NuStar Energy in 2022, is being expanded into a green hydrogen and ammonia facility powered by EverWind wind farms, with several hundred megawatt hours of battery storage.
Nova Scotia premier Tim Houston called it the largest private investment in the province’s history, with the potential to create thousands of jobs, and stressed commitments to protect ratepayers. EverWind chief executive Trent Vichie said the project creates opportunities for Nova Scotians to build careers at home in rural Nova Scotia.
Point Tupper would be Anthropic’s first known data centre capacity in Canada. The identification rests on CBC reporting carried by Datacenter Dynamics; neither Anthropic nor EverWind named Anthropic in the material reported.