EverWind Fuels Plans $10 Billion Data Centre Campus in Cape Breton Anchored by Anthropic
EverWind Fuels, led by CEO Trent Vichie, plans to build a $10 billion, 420-megawatt data centre campus at Point Tupper in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The project is anchored by a 20-year lease with AI company Anthropic and aims to be the largest privately funded investment in the province's history.
EverWind Fuels, led by founder and CEO Trent Vichie, plans to build a $10 billion, 420-megawatt data centre campus on the shores of the Strait of Canso in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The development is anchored by a 20-year lease with artificial intelligence company Anthropic and is positioned to become the largest privately funded investment in the province's history.
The project will be built at Point Tupper, an existing heavy industrial site owned by EverWind. The location already features grid connection, industrial water supply, deepwater port access, road access, and fibre infrastructure. EverWind has committed to funding connection, network upgrade, and other electricity system costs attributable to the data centre rather than passing those project-specific expenses to existing customers. The company also guarantees that electricity and industrial water rates for existing customers will not increase because of the project.
To minimize environmental impact, the data centre will use a closed-loop cooling system combined with Nova Scotia’s naturally cool weather, keeping water usage at just one-third of what some golf courses consume. The facility will be powered by wind energy that is majority owned by EverWind’s Mi’kmaw partners.
Phase 1 of the development is targeted to come online by the end of 2027, with full completion expected the following year. The project is projected to create over 2,000 peak construction jobs and more than 200 permanent high-paying positions, with annual salaries for the permanent data-centre roles ranging from $135,000 to $185,000.
Economically, the projects are estimated to generate nearly $137 million in annual GDP within Nova Scotia. Direct construction spending in the province is expected to reach approximately $2.4 billion, along with $939 million in construction-related employment income. Across both the data centre and wind projects, roughly $400 million in new municipal tax revenues is projected, alongside tens of millions of dollars in dedicated community benefits funding.
Anthropic currently ranks Canada sixth worldwide in usage of its Claude.ai platform, with Canadians using the technology roughly four times more than the country's population would predict.