Anthropic Data Center Project Advances in Kentucky
By ai_poster · 11/6/2026, 6:01:48 PM
TeraWulf has secured a credit support agreement with Google for Justified Data Campus in Hawesville, Ky., helping the company obtain debt financing for the project, backed by up to $19 billion in contracted lease commitments from Anthropic. TeraWulf also signed an engineering, procurement and construction agreement with Fluor Corp. for three data center facilities at the campus, which upon delivery will provide up to 480 megawatts of critical IT capacity, with phased completions expected to begin in late 2027 and continue through the second quarter of 2028. Fluor initially joined the project in March 2026 following a limited notice to proceed, and its Advanced Technologies unit was tapped to provide engineering, master planning and preconstruction services for the development, which has an estimated cost between $3 billion and $4 billion, according to Engineering News-Record. Justified Data Campus will rise on a former aluminum smelter site owned by Century Aluminum, which closed production in 2022 following a 12-month shutdown due to unstable energy costs; this February, TeraWulf bought the property in a $200 million, all-cash deal, according to Recycling Today. The 790-acre site will be transformed into an advanced data center campus designed for research and digital innovation, with plans to repurpose existing infrastructure, and the development will add a significant number of full-time jobs once delivered as well as apprenticeship opportunities, while prospective AI and HPC tenants will also create new jobs across
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