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Increasing sovereign AI capacity: Introducing Bell AI Fabric

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Bell AI Fabric data centre in Canada ensuring data sovereignty.

MONTRÉAL, May 28, 2025 – Bell Canada today announced Bell AI Fabric, a major investment that will create the country’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) compute project and ensure that Canadian companies can continue to compete and win in the global AI economy. 

Bell AI Fabric will create a national network starting with a data centre supercluster in British Columbia that will aim to provide upwards of 500 MW of hydro-electric powered AI compute capacity across six facilities.

This initiative represents Bell’s long-term objective to drive AI innovation and economic growth in Canada. With cutting-edge technology and ensuring data sovereignty, Bell is poised to lead the way in delivering secure, reliable, and transformative AI solutions for businesses and communities across the country.

Bell AI Fabric will include:  

      • Four AI facilities located in Kamloops and Merritt, BC.  
      • Two AI data centres designed for high-density AI workloads, powered by clean hydroelectricity and with a total capacity of more than 400 MW.  
      • Other facilities planned across the country will take advantage of Bell’s nationwide real estate assets and will further add to the capacity of Bell AI Fabric. 


Advanced compute technology powered by Groq

Bell has selected Groq as its inference infrastructure partner to support the development of sovereign AI in Canada, ensuring that customers have access to the most up-to-date technology to power their AI workloads. Groq’s advanced LPUs deliver faster inference performance than other processing units at significantly lower costs per token than existing market alternatives.


An academic partnership with Thompson Rivers University

The data centre at TRU will be designed to host AI training and inference, providing students and faculty with access to cutting-edge compute capabilities, both at TRU and nationally through integration with the BCNET network. The data centre is also being integrated into the district energy system, with waste heat being repurposed to provide energy to TRU’s buildings.

Read the full press release. To find out more about our Data and AI services and capabilities, contact your Bell representative-or visit our Data and AI services page.