Anthropic 20-year $19B lease at Hawesville
Company: TeraWulf - Project: Justified Data
The claim, verbatim
In July, TeraWulf signed a 20-year, $19 billion lease with Anthropic for 401 MW at its Hawesville, Kentucky site.
Source (primary)
TeraWulf doubles Kentucky data center power deal to a full gigawatt - Startup Fortune (-, news_article)
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Quote: “the company signed a 20-year, $19 billion lease with Anthropic for 401 megawatts at a separate Kentucky site in Hawesville”
How we checked this
Checked on October 8, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
Citing CNBC, the article reports that in July TeraWulf signed a 20-year, $19 billion lease with Anthropic for 401 megawatts at its Hawesville, Kentucky site.
Confirmed in the source:
- TeraWulf signed the lease in July
- The lease is with Anthropic
- The lease runs 20 years
- The lease is worth $19 billion
- The lease covers 401 MW
- The site is TeraWulf's Hawesville, Kentucky site
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://startupfortune.com/terawulf-doubles-kentucky-data-center-power-deal-to-a-full-gigawatt/) in full (8,485 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms TeraWulf doubles Kentucky data center power deal to a full gigawatt - Startup Fortune
Quote: “the company signed a 20-year, $19 billion lease with Anthropic for 401 megawatts at a separate Kentucky site in Hawesville”