Bell Canada: Winnipeg Data Center

Site History

2021: Merit Functional Foods opens a pea and canola protein plant on the site.

2023: Merit enters receivership.

2025: Former Merit executives buy the plant out of receivership.

2025-08: Bell and BUZZ HPC announce a sovereign AI compute deployment in Manitoba.

2026: Bell begins converting the plant. Planning-district permits cover at least $31.5 million of work, including pads for generators, chillers and transformers.

2026-05: BUZZ HPC's NVIDIA B200 cluster goes live.

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Cerebras: Manitoba	Cerebras Systems leases AI compute capacity from Bell Canada's Bell AI Fabric network in Manitoba.
0.00 miles	PlusInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
6.22 miles	Enterprise Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
6.23 miles	Les.net: YWG4	Les.net's YWG4 is a colocation suite on the eighth floor of the Air Canada Building at 355 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a Manitoba Internet Exchange switch.
6.31 miles	Manitoba Hydro Telecom Data Centre	Manitoba Hydro Telecom's data centre occupies the 24th-floor penthouse of Manitoba Hydro Place in downtown Winnipeg. The room hosts carrier networks and a Manitoba Internet Exchange node.
6.33 miles	Les.net YWG2	Les.net's YWG2 colocation facility occupies Suite 201 on the second floor of the Somerset Building in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).
6.35 miles	XGSC: Winnipeg	XGSC's Global Server Centre is a carrier-neutral colocation facility on the fifth floor of the Grain Exchange Building, downtown Winnipeg's main carrier hotel. It hosts the primary node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).
6.35 miles	XGSC: Global Server Centre	XGSC's Global Server Centre is a carrier-neutral colocation facility on the fifth floor of the Grain Exchange Building, downtown Winnipeg's main carrier hotel. It hosts the primary node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).
6.49 miles	Les.net: YWG1	Les.net's YWG1 is a small carrier-neutral colocation facility at the company's head office on Portage Avenue East in downtown Winnipeg.
9.99 miles	Equinix Winnipeg WI1	Equinix WI1 is a two-storey Tier III data centre on Waverley Street in south Winnipeg. MTS built it as MTS Data Centres Waverley in 2015, and Equinix acquired it from Bell in 2020.
10.55 miles	Fintech Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.54 miles	Education Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
19.45 miles	Jet.AI: Winnipeg Campus	Jet.AI and Infinite Compute (formerly Consensus Core) are developing a data centre campus north of Île-des-Chênes, about 20 km south of Winnipeg. A small proof-of-concept facility sits on the site. Manitoba's premier refused the proposed hyperscale campus in June 2026.

Distance

Site

About

0.00 miles

Cerebras: Manitoba

Cerebras Systems leases AI compute capacity from Bell Canada's Bell AI Fabric network in Manitoba.

0.00 miles

6.22 miles

6.23 miles

Les.net: YWG4

Les.net's YWG4 is a colocation suite on the eighth floor of the Air Canada Building at 355 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a Manitoba Internet Exchange switch.

6.31 miles

Manitoba Hydro Telecom Data Centre

Manitoba Hydro Telecom's data centre occupies the 24th-floor penthouse of Manitoba Hydro Place in downtown Winnipeg. The room hosts carrier networks and a Manitoba Internet Exchange node.

6.33 miles

Les.net YWG2

Les.net's YWG2 colocation facility occupies Suite 201 on the second floor of the Somerset Building in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).

6.35 miles

XGSC: Winnipeg

XGSC's Global Server Centre is a carrier-neutral colocation facility on the fifth floor of the Grain Exchange Building, downtown Winnipeg's main carrier hotel. It hosts the primary node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).

6.35 miles

XGSC: Global Server Centre

6.49 miles

Les.net: YWG1

Les.net's YWG1 is a small carrier-neutral colocation facility at the company's head office on Portage Avenue East in downtown Winnipeg.

9.99 miles

Equinix Winnipeg WI1

Equinix WI1 is a two-storey Tier III data centre on Waverley Street in south Winnipeg. MTS built it as MTS Data Centres Waverley in 2015, and Equinix acquired it from Bell in 2020.

10.55 miles

11.54 miles

19.45 miles

Jet.AI: Winnipeg Campus

Jet.AI and Infinite Compute (formerly Consensus Core) are developing a data centre campus north of Île-des-Chênes, about 20 km south of Winnipeg. A small proof-of-concept facility sits on the site. Manitoba's premier refused the proposed hyperscale campus in June 2026.