Bell: Kamloops 2

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Bell: Kamloops 2

Short Code: TRU-1
Year Planned: 2027
Utility Provider: BC Hydro
Ownership: Bell Canada building shell held by hillside data centre inc. on thompson rivers university land under a long-term ground lease; developed by truenorth sustainable infrastructure; operated by bell's itel. the building.

Bell’s Hillside AI Centre is being built on Thompson Rivers University (TRU) land in Kamloops through a partnership aimed at expanding Canadian AI infrastructure capacity.

Site History

  • 2025-05: Bell announces an AI data center at TRU as part of Bell AI Fabric.
  • 2025-08: TrueNorth Sustainable Infrastructure signs the lease with Bell.
  • 2026-02: The City of Kamloops issues the building permit for the Hillside Data Centre.
  • 2026-04: Construction begins, with completion expected in late 2027.

Project Profile

  • Name: Hillside AI Centre
  • Developer: TrueNorth Sustainable Infrastructure; operator iTel (a Bell company)
  • Building: about 30,000 square feet on a 2.9-acre TRU parcel
  • Heat recovery: waste heat to TRU's low-carbon district energy system

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Sites within 15 miles of Bell: Kamloops 2

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0.15 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.
0.16 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.
1.43 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.
1.43 miles Bell: Kamloops 1
The very first Bell Canada AI inference facility, operated by Groq, is a data center located in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
1.83 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.
2.41 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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