Anthropic signed a 20-year, $19 billion lease; first capacity in the second half of 2027, fully operational by early 2028.
Facts
As of Jul 6, 2026- Operator
- TeraWulf
- Tenant
- Anthropic
- Capacity
- 401 MWIT capacity
- Power
- Former aluminum smelter site
- Location
- Hawesville, Kentucky · Cloud regions nearby
- Announced
- Jul 6, 2026
- Target online
- H2 2027
- On file since
- Jul 6, 2026 · DCD
Related builds
Western Downs Digital Park (Anthropic)Anthropic will lease part of Zerra DC's planned 1.44 GW Western Downs Digital Park near Dalby, Queensland, for inference.Zerra DC for Anthropic · Dalby, Australia
Lake MarinerTeraWulf is converting its Lake Mariner campus in western New York into AI halls leased to Fluidstack, with Google backstopping the leases.TeraWulf for Fluidstack · Barker, New York
Project RainierAn EC2 UltraCluster of Trainium2 servers built mainly for Anthropic's Claude, fully operational less than a year after it was announced.AWS for Anthropic · New Carlisle, Indiana · AWS Trainium2 (nearly 500,000)
Sources and links
- DCD: Anthropic signs $19bn, 20-year lease for Kentucky data center with TeraWulf · DCD · Jul 6, 2026
Across Glyph: TeraWulf on Companies, Anthropic on Partnerships, cloud regions on Regions.