Telus Plans AI Data Center Expansion in British Columbia

Dow Jones05-12

By Robb M. Stewart

Telus is stepping up its artificial intelligence push with plans for two new data centers and the expansion of a third in Western Canada in response to strong demand.

The communications-technology company said it will scale up a sovereign AI cluster in British Columbia with an expansion of its existing Kamloops data center and the development with Westbank of a pair of facilities in the Vancouver area.

The Kamloops AI factory will come online later this year, the M3 facility in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighborhood will open at the end of 2026 and scale through 2028, and the 150 West Georgia facility will come online in 2029, Telus said. The move will grow the cluster's total capacity to more than 150 megawatts by 2032.

The three-site cluster will house AI infrastructure featuring high-performance Nvidia graphics processing units to support large-scale AI model training, complex simulations and production-scale deployment, the company said. It added the sites will be powered by 98% renewable energy.

Once fully scaled, Telus said the cluster is expected to deliver about 9 billion Canadian dollars (US$6.6 billion) in economic value to British Columbia, create more than 1,000 construction jobs and hundreds of high-skilled operations roles.

Telus' first sovereign AI factory in Rimouski, Quebec, opened last September and now is fully sold out, it said.

Write to Robb M. Stewart at robb.stewart@wsj.com

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