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TELUS Kamloops data centre and Kamloops AI Factory

What the public record shows

An operating data centre being expanded into an AI facility, with a cluster-level power figure and two conflicting renewable claims.

TELUS operates a data centre in Kamloops that the Province announced in 2012 as a $75 million project built to LEED Gold standards, with 200 construction jobs and 75 permanent skilled technical positions. TELUS now states it is expanding the facility into a Sovereign AI Factory, leveraging an initial 85 MW of clean, renewable power secured from BC Hydro across a three-site B.C. cluster, with the cluster scaling to over 150 MW and over 60,000 GPUs by 2032.

What is missing

  • The 85 MW figure covers the Kamloops expansion and two Vancouver facilities together. The split across sites is not published, so it is recorded as a cluster-level expected peak demand and not as an allocation, a contract or a connection for this facility.
  • BC Hydro's 2026 Call for Demand page reports 15 applications totalling close to 800 MW and names no applicants, so no link between this facility and that process can be recorded.
  • The water claims are stated as reductions and savings against an unnamed baseline, and cover Kamloops and Rimouski together, so no consumption or withdrawal value is recorded.
  • The 2012 jobs figures are commitments. No delivered employment figure has been published.

Open questions

  • Two proponent releases state different renewable shares for the same facilities, 99 percent in 2025 and 98 percent in 2026, with no methodology, boundary or matching basis in either. Both are recorded and the value is held as disputed.

Last reviewed . Verification state: proponent-reported. Fairness review: pending. Each identified subject gets a factual correction opportunity before any record containing ownership, control or adverse material is indexed. A correction opportunity is a fairness step, not a veto over sourced public-interest reporting. Corrections go through the contact route.

Registry ID
PC-FAC-003
Aggregation review
review-required

Identity, ownership and control

Who owns and operates the record, with protected commercial detail withheld by reason category instead of silently deleted.

  • TELUS Communications Inc.

    owner-operatorReported
    Effective from
    2025-04-15
    Review status
    verified

  • British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

    electricity-supplier-stated-by-proponentReported
    Effective from
    2026-05-11
    Review status
    review-required
  • Ownership percentProtected
  • Control mechanismProtected

Location and authority context

General public location at a security-appropriate precision. Parcel detail is protected, and First Nations process fields are Nation-controlled.

General location
Kamloops, British Columbia. The sources name the municipality; no site address or coordinates are recorded here.
Municipality or regional district
City of Kamloops
Land tenure category
not-disclosed
Coordinate precision
municipality
Watershed
unknown
Grid / service territory
BC Hydro, per the proponent statement that power is secured from BC Hydro. No utility record confirming service to this facility has been retrieved.
  • Parcel/site identifierProtected
  • First Nations process statusNation-controlled
  • Nation-approved public summaryNation-controlled
  • Sensitive receptor / emergency contextProtected

The registry does not identify or determine rights holders, consultation or accommodation duties, or consent. Potentially affected Nations are identified only through authoritative processes.

Lifecycle and milestones

Planned versus actual dates stay separate, and a missing date stays visibly unknown.

Electricity and grid

Requested, allocated, contracted and connected MW are four different fields. This record shows each one separately with its own state and evidence.

  • Requested MW

    Committed / expectedNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary and method
    No public utility record of a capacity request for this facility has been retrieved. TELUS states an initial 85 MW of clean, renewable power secured from BC Hydro (PC-SRC-102). The release does not say whether that is an allocation decision, a contract or existing service, does not split it across the three named sites, and does not say whether it moved through BC Hydro's 2026 Call for Demand (PC-SRC-105).
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Allocated MW

    Actual / deliveredNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary and method
    TELUS states an initial 85 MW of clean, renewable power secured from BC Hydro (PC-SRC-102). The release does not say whether that is an allocation decision, a contract or existing service, does not split it across the three named sites, and does not say whether it moved through BC Hydro's 2026 Call for Demand (PC-SRC-105).
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Contracted MW

    Actual / deliveredNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary and method
    TELUS states an initial 85 MW of clean, renewable power secured from BC Hydro (PC-SRC-102). The release does not say whether that is an allocation decision, a contract or existing service, does not split it across the three named sites, and does not say whether it moved through BC Hydro's 2026 Call for Demand (PC-SRC-105).
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Connected MW

    Actual / deliveredNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary and method
    The facility operates (PC-SRC-102), so a connected load exists. No public source states it, and it cannot be inferred from the proponent's 85 MW cluster figure.
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Peak demand

    Committed / expectedReported

    85 MW

    Boundary and method
    Cluster-level figure, not a figure for this facility. TELUS states an initial 85 MW secured from BC Hydro covering the Kamloops expansion and two Vancouver facilities together (PC-SRC-102). The split across sites is not published, the utility instrument is not named, and the release also states the cluster scaling to over 150 MW by 2032.
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Annual energy

    Committed / expectedDisputed

    Disputed

    Boundary and method
    No public annual energy value exists for this facility. This row carries the proponent renewable-share claim attached to the facility, which two proponent releases state differently.
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Renewable claim
    98% claimed. Proponent statement that the facilities are powered by 98 percent renewable energy (PC-SRC-102). No boundary, period, matching basis (annual or hourly) or accounting standard is published. An earlier proponent release states 99 percent for the Kamloops and Rimouski AI Factories (PC-SRC-103). Both figures are retained and neither is treated as correct.
    Additionality
    no claim
  • Grid upgrade / cost responsibilityProtected

Water, cooling, heat and backup generation

PUE and WUE only appear with their boundary, period, method context and assurance status. Heat that exists is not heat that is reused.

  • Annual consumption

    Committed / expectedNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Measurement boundary
    No boundary published. The proponent claim covers the Rimouski and Kamloops AI Factories together, not Kamloops alone.
    Method and climate/load context
    TELUS states that natural cooling systems reduce water consumption by more than 75 percent compared to traditional data centres, saving 17 million litres of water per year (PC-SRC-103). A stated saving is not a consumption value and the baseline is not named, so no consumption number is recorded.
    Assurance status
    not-reviewed
    Water source / cooling mode
    natural cooling, per the proponent release
    Heat quality and availability
    not-applicable

  • Annual withdrawal

    Committed / expectedUnknown

    Unknown

    Measurement boundary
    No boundary published.
    Method and climate/load context
    No public withdrawal figure has been retrieved; the proponent releases (PC-SRC-102, PC-SRC-103) state none. Withdrawal and consumption are separate metrics and neither can be derived from the other or from the cooling technology.
    Assurance status
    not-reviewed
    Water source / cooling mode
    not-disclosed
    Heat quality and availability
    not-applicable

Environmental and physical impacts

Baseline, forecast and actual values stay separate, with permits and conditions cited where they exist.

  • operational-ghg

    Committed / expectedNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary, method and period
    TELUS states its AI Factories eliminate over 300 tons of carbon emissions (PC-SRC-103). An avoided-emissions claim against an unnamed baseline is not an emissions inventory. No scope, boundary, period or accounting standard is published, so no value is recorded.

Employment, procurement and community commitments

Committed numbers and delivered numbers are different claims. Each row is labelled as one or the other.

  • construction-jobs

    Committed / expectedReported

    200

    Unit and definition
    Construction jobs stated in the 2012 Province of British Columbia news release for the original Kamloops data centre (PC-SRC-106). Duration, location and counting method are not published.

  • permanent-jobs

    Committed / expectedReported

    75

    Unit and definition
    75 permanent skilled technical positions stated in the 2012 Province of British Columbia news release (PC-SRC-106). This is a 2012 commitment for the original facility.

  • permanent-jobs

    Actual / deliveredUnknown

    Unknown

    Unit and definition
    No delivered permanent-employment figure has been published for this facility. The 2012 commitment above (PC-SRC-106) is not evidence of delivery.
  • Agreement / milestoneProtected

Indigenous ownership, governance and data arrangements

This entire table is Nation-controlled. Nothing from it serializes to the public projection, this page, exports or metadata.

Collection, interpretation, use, retention and publication of this field family are governed by the relevant Nation or authorized body. The registry publishes it only where disclosure is authorized, and no such authorization exists for any current record. Review rules PC-REV-001 and PC-REV-002 in the canonical pack keep this exclusion in force until authorized reviewers clear them.

  • Indigenous governance record IDNation-controlled
  • Facility IDNation-controlled
  • Arrangement typeNation-controlled
  • Agreement existence / statusNation-controlled
  • Nation-approved public summaryNation-controlled
  • Data-governance arrangementNation-controlled
  • Disclosure authority referenceNation-controlled
  • Disclosure review dateNation-controlled
  • Disclosure classNation-controlled
  • Value stateNation-controlled

Benefits, procurement, equity or revenue arrangements are never a substitute for rights, title, consultation, accommodation, consent or Nation decision authority.

Compute, sovereignty and access

Compute capacity appears only with its workload, precision and period context. There is no cross-hardware league table, and security detail stays protected.

  • installed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Capacity metric
    No published capacity metric for this facility. TELUS states the three-site B.C. cluster will house over 60,000 GPUs by 2032 (PC-SRC-102), which is a forward-looking cluster count rather than an installed Kamloops capacity, and a device count is not a capability measure.
    Method, period and context
    Proponent releases only. No workload, precision, period, utilisation or measurement method is published, so no comparable capacity value is recorded.
    Access program / audience
    commercial
    Eligibility, price and allocation
    TELUS markets the Sovereign AI Factory to Canadian businesses, entrepreneurs, startups, researchers, public institutions and government organisations. No published eligibility rules, price list, allocation mechanism or public-interest reservation has been retrieved.
    Utilization / delivered outcome
    unknown; no delivered access, utilisation or customer information is published, and customer identities would not be recorded here in any case
  • Hardware category / generationProtected
  • Residency, control, support, and operationsProtected
  • Security attestationProtected

Approvals, reporting and compliance

Instruments, conditions, filings and reported compliance, with the issuing authority named.

    • Decommissioning obligation / securityProtected

    Commitments versus delivered performance

    A commitment is not delivered performance. Targets and actuals sit side by side, and a missing actual stays visibly unreported.

    • schedule

      Reported

      TELUS states the Kamloops AI Factory will come online later this year, in a release dated 2026-05-11 (PC-SRC-102).

      Commitment target
      No public value
      Delivered actual
      Not yet reported
      Unit and period
      calendar year 2026; proponent statement with no specific date published
      Due date / status
      2026; open

    Material changes and version history

    Corrections and revisions append history instead of overwriting it. Superseded values stay on the record.

    Sources and verification

    Every value on this page traces to one of these sources, each with its verification status, effective period and review dates.