Major artificial intelligence company Anthropic has signed a long-term lease at a newly announced data centre project in Nova Scotia that its local developer says could cost $10-billion.
San Francisco-based Anthropic, known for its Claude chatbot, said signing up for capacity at the site, which was unveiled by EverWind Fuels on Friday, will help meet growing demand from Canadian and global customers.
EverWind, headquartered in Halifax, said the data-centre campus in Point Tupper, N.S., could cost $8-billion to fully develop. Another $2-billion would go to developing the company’s wind-energy portfolio in the province.
“Our work with EverWind will help meet growing demand for Claude in Canada while bringing new clean energy onto the grid and protecting existing electricity customers,” Jacob Glick, Anthropic’s head of Canada public policy, said in a statement.
“The people of Nova Scotia should benefit from what gets built in their community, and we will work together to achieve shared goals and earn our place as a good neighbour.”
Earlier on Friday, EverWind said it had reached a long-term lease deal with a “leading frontier AI developer” for the initial phase of the Point Tupper campus, but did not initially disclose it was Anthropic. The AI company trumpeted its involvement later in the day.
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