Map / BC
Verified 2026-08-01
Telus Kamloops sovereign AI data centre (expansion)
Telus, in partnership with Government of Canada / Kamloops, BC
Announced
85 MW
announced
0 MW
energized
None of it is drawing power yet.
- 2026 Developer target stated by the developer, not a filed date
- 2026-05-12 Announced
- Power path
- Grid
- Generation tech
- Sovereign AI compute (NVIDIA GPU training clusters)
- Utility
- BC Hydro
- Queue reference
- Not stated
- Target online
- 2026
- Announced
- 2026-05-12
- Verification
- press
- Coordinate
- 50.6745, -120.3273 (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
- New AI data centres proposed for Vancouver, Kamloops: NDP leader skeptical
- Telus proposing to build three new data centres in British Columbia
The 85 MW figure is a network total shared across three sites, with Mount Pleasant and Yaletown, rather than a figure for this site. The three Telus rows are not summed.
Other tracked projects in British Columbia
- Bell AI Fabric -- two additional undisclosed BC sites Bell Canada · 400 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
- Bell AI Fabric Merritt (with Buzz HPC) Bell Canada; Buzz HPC (subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies) as GPU tenant · 7 MW · Announced
Last verified 2026-08-01. Corrections: sam@mccordinvestments.com