TELUS to launch Canada's leading Sovereign AI Factory, powered by NVIDIA to drive the nation's AI future

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n TELUS to launch Canada's leading Sovereign AI Factory, powered by NVIDIA to drive the nation's AI future\n \n\n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Canada NewsWire\n \n\n\n\n\n TELUS is now the first North American Service Provider to become an official NVIDIA Cloud Partner\n \n\n\n\n TELUS' AI Factory will help\n \n Canada\n \n develop domestic AI technologies, increase productivity, protect data and support businesses, making the country economically competitive and future-ready\n \n\n\n\n Inaugural site in\n \n Quebec\n \n will use TELUS' global-leading PureFibre network, powered by 99% renewable energy\n \n\n\n\n\n VANCOUVER, BC\n \n\n ,\n \n\n March 18, 2025\n \n\n /CNW/ - TELUS, in collaboration with NVIDIA, announced today that it plans to build\n \n Canada's\n \n leading Sovereign AI Factory — a powerful and super-secure facility that will give Canadian businesses and researchers access to cutting-edge technology — helping them develop smarter AI products, streamline operations and stay competitive in a fast-changing world. It provides the supercomputers and software needed to train AI while keeping data safe within\n \n Canada's\n \n borders.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n TELUS plans to deploy NVIDIA's latest-generation, industry-leading graphics processing units (GPUs), following NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) Reference Architectures and software stack, at its data centre in\n \n Quebec\n \n by summer 2025, with expansion planned at its facility in\n \n British Columbia\n \n .\n \n\n The Sovereign AI Factory will leverage TELUS' high-speed, ultra-low-latency, fibre-optic network with sustainable data centres powered by 99% renewable energy sources to deliver AI as a Service (AIaaS). TELUS' world-class data centres are designed to be three times more energy efficient for excess power usage than the industry average, using significantly less electricity to power AI computing workloads. The facilities also rely on natural cooling, cutting water consumption by more than 75% compared to traditional data cent...

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