Map / BC
Verified 2026-08-01
Bell AI Fabric Merritt (with Buzz HPC)
Bell Canada; Buzz HPC (subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies) as GPU tenant / Merritt, BC
Announced
7 MW
announced
0 MW
energized
None of it is drawing power yet.
- 2025-05-28 Announced
- 2026 Developer target stated by the developer, not a filed date
- Power path
- Grid
- Generation tech
- AI training/inference, high-density liquid-cooled GPU clusters
- Utility
- BC Hydro
- Queue reference
- Not stated
- Target online
- 2026
- Announced
- 2025-05-28
- Verification
- multiple
- Coordinate
- 50.1121, -120.7862 (town)
Getting power in British Columbia
Effectively closed to unsolicited load: capacity is capped and allocated by competitive call, not first-come-first-served.
The full British Columbia record, with the route to power, the binding constraint and every dated policy event.
Sources
- Bell announces plans to open six AI data centres in B.C.
- Bell, Buzz HPC Announce new 6.5MW data centre in B.C.
- HIVE's BUZZ HPC Closes USD $220 Million Sovereign AI GPU Contract with Bell AI Fabric for Cohere Inc.
Held at announced. Unlike the Rosser, Manitoba site, no filing, imagery or independent report of ground activity was found; the strongest available language is a March 2026 press item saying the facility would launch within weeks. Buzz HPC holds 6.5 MW of the 7 MW total under a June 2026 contract, deploying an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system with roughly $70M projected ARR, with launch expected in late 2026 or early 2027.
Other tracked projects in British Columbia
- Bell AI Fabric -- two additional undisclosed BC sites Bell Canada · 400 MW · Announced
- Telus Kamloops sovereign AI data centre (expansion) Telus, in partnership with Government of Canada · 85 MW · Announced
- IREN Mackenzie Data Center IREN Ltd. (formerly Iris Energy) · 80 MW · Operating
- DMG Blockchain Christina Lake Data Center DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. · 65 MW · Construction
- IREN Prince George Data Center IREN Ltd. (formerly Iris Energy) · 50 MW · Operating
- IREN Canal Flats Data Center IREN Ltd. (formerly Iris Energy) · 30 MW · Operating
- Bell AI Fabric Kamloops -- Thompson Rivers University site Bell Canada · 26 MW · Announced
- Bell AI Fabric Kamloops Bell Canada, with Groq (inference partner) · 7 MW · Operating
Last verified 2026-08-01. Corrections: sam@mccordinvestments.com