Bell: Kamloops 1

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Bell: Kamloops 1

Year Built: 2025
Utility Provider: BC Hydro
Ownership: Bell Canada leased to bell by truenorth sustainable infrastructure; groq runs the inference platform. the building.

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The very first Bell Canada AI inference facility, operated by Groq, is a data center located in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The site is powered by Groq's LPUs, which are designed to accelerate artificial intelligence inference tasks, particularly for large language models (LLMs).

Site History

  • 2025-02: TrueNorth Sustainable Infrastructure leases the converted former Weyerhaeuser office on Mission Flats Road to Bell.
  • 2025-06: The facility comes online as the first Bell AI Fabric site, with Groq as its inference partner.

Project Profile

  • Operator: Bell AI Fabric, with Groq
  • Developer and landlord: TrueNorth Sustainable Infrastructure
  • Fit-out: 166 racks of Groq servers

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1850 Mission Flats Rd ( Unit 901 )
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Sites within 15 miles of Bell: Kamloops 1

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0.00 miles Groq: Kamloops
Groq runs AI inference on its LPU servers in Bell AI Fabric's first Kamloops data centre, as the exclusive inference provider for Bell's sovereign AI network.
1.28 miles Telus: Kamloops
TELUS operates an existing data center in Kamloops, British Columbia, that is now being expanded into part of its Canadian sovereign AI Factory network. The site is expected to support AI workloads alongside TELUS’ Rimouski and Vancouver facilities.
1.31 miles Equinix Kamloops KA1
Equinix KA1 is a purpose-built data center on Bunker Road in Kamloops, opened by Q9 Networks in 2011 and acquired by Equinix from Bell Canada in 2020.
1.43 miles Bell: Kamloops 2
Canadian telecoms operator Bell Canada is building an AI data center at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, British Columbia.
1.96 miles Bell: Kamloops 3
Bell AI Fabric has proposed an AI data centre on the Kenna Village lands west of downtown Kamloops. The project remains conceptual.
3.37 miles SilverServers: Kamloops
SilverServers owns and operates a small data centre, licensed as Canadian Shield Data Center, at 765 Lorne Street in downtown Kamloops.

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Bell Wholesale offers voice, broadband, and IP wholesale products and services throughout Canada, with additional presence in key locations in the United States and Europe. The company aims to support its customers in business growth and in serving their end clients.

As a major communications provider in Canada, Bell Wholesale utilizes an infrastructure that includes over 293,000 kilometers of fiber and 28 data centers nationwide. The company provides support through a team of professional services experts and a 24/7 helpdesk, serving various telecommunications entities globally, including interexchange carriers, local exchange carriers, wireless service providers, Internet service providers, over-the-top providers, telcos, and cablecos.

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