Anthropic has signed a lease for data-center capacity in Nova Scotia, marking the artificial-intelligence developer’s first data-center agreement in Canada.
The capacity will be located at Point Tupper and supplied through a project being developed by EverWind.
EverWind separately announced plans to invest more than C$10 billion in a Nova Scotia data-center campus and associated wind-power projects, describing the development as the largest privately funded investment in the province’s history.
The agreement expands Anthropic’s physical computing footprint at a time when access to electricity, data-center capacity and financing has become one of the most important constraints facing the AI industry.
Anthropic spent $7.33 billion on computing and infrastructure last year, roughly triple its 2024 level.
The Canadian project also highlights the increasingly close relationship between AI infrastructure and power development.
Large data centers require enormous amounts of electricity, and developers are increasingly seeking locations where computing capacity can be paired with dedicated or newly developed generation.
Those projects have also generated scrutiny because of their electricity and water requirements and the potential costs imposed on surrounding infrastructure.
Anthropic has said it intends to protect ratepayers and water resources while ensuring local communities benefit from the development.
The deal arrives as Anthropic continues expanding the enormous computing infrastructure required to develop and operate advanced AI systems.
The next questions are how rapidly the Point Tupper capacity is built, how the planned renewable generation develops alongside it and how much Canadian computing capacity Anthropic ultimately commits to the project.
