Telus (T.TO) is advancing a proposed artificial-intelligence data-center cluster in British Columbia, the company said on Monday.
Telus is expanding its existing Kamloops data center and developing two new Vancouver facilities with Westbank and its partners. 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, with the cluster's total capacity scaling to over 150 MW by 2032, a statement said.
Once fully scaled, this cluster is expected to deliver $9 billion in economic value to British Columbia, create more than 1,000 construction jobs and hundreds of high-skilled operations roles, Telus added.
The company's first Sovereign AI Factory in Rimouski, Quebec, opened last September, and is sold out.
Telus shares were last seen down $0.08 to $17.38 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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