Facility · Evidence reviewed 2026-10-06
TELUS Kamloops Internet Data Centre / Sovereign AI Factory
TELUS · Kamloops, British Columbia
Research record, not a building count. Campus and phase overlap may exist; do not add capacity values. Access dates do not establish fresh commissioning.
Identity and map provenance
- Name: Issuer press release via CNW
- Operator: Issuer press release via CNW
- Province: Issuer press release via CNW
- City: Issuer press release via CNW
- Record kind: Issuer press release via CNW
- Disposition: Issuer press release via CNW
City reference only; not the facility. Derived city center, rounded to four decimals. The marker is not a building, entrance, campus or parcel location. GeoNames 5989045 · CC BY 4.0
Location
ReportedKamloops, British Columbia. City or regional reference only; no facility coordinates are published.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Facility
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Published location reference
- TELUS and Government of Canada advance work to scale Canada's sovereign AI infrastructure · Issuer press release via CNW
Lifecycle
Expansion plannedTELUS describes expansion of its existing Kamloops data centre into the AI cluster, with an AI Factory target later in 2026. Existing facility operation and future AI expansion are separate subjects.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Facility
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Facility or project lifecycle
- TELUS and Government of Canada advance work to scale Canada's sovereign AI infrastructure · Issuer press release via CNW
Power
PlannedThe release’s 85 MW initial power and greater-than-150 MW future target cover all three BC sites, not Kamloops alone.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Three site cluster
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Power supply or backup configuration
- TELUS and Government of Canada advance work to scale Canada's sovereign AI infrastructure · Issuer press release via CNW
Hardware
PlannedThe greater-than-60,000-GPU plan and named NVIDIA platforms apply to the future three-site cluster; there is no Kamloops installed count.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Three site cluster
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Hardware deployment procurement or support
- TELUS and Government of Canada advance work to scale Canada's sovereign AI infrastructure · Issuer press release via CNW
Ownership
ReportedThe reviewed source identifies TELUS in the operator or development role. This does not establish title to the underlying land.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Facility
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Ownership operator or developer relationship
- TELUS and Government of Canada advance work to scale Canada's sovereign AI infrastructure · Issuer press release via CNW