TELUS Rimouski Sovereign AI Factory
TELUS · Rimouski
- IT live
- 12 MW
- Remaining
- 8 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $39
- White space
- 63k ft²
Inventory
60% occupiedPower
20 MWcampus
8 MW to commission · 12 MW in use
White space
104k ft²total
42k ft² free · 63k ft² occupied
9,677 m² · 3,871 m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 13 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$39/kW·mo
4.8¢ industrial · 5.4¢ after PUE 1.12
- Per MW·year
- $471k
- This site · 12 MW
- $5.7M/yr
- 40 kW rack
- $1,570/mo
1.5× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $1.9M/yr less.
Hydro-Québec Rate L / Rimouski · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2025
- Renewable match
- 99%
- Rack density
- 40 kW
- PUE
- 1.121.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Hydro-Québec 120 kV private interconnection plus on-site diesel. Rate L industrial hydro.
Cooling
Plant
Direct-to-chip
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
40 kW
H100-eq
2k
WUE
—
Operator has not published WUE. Blank, not zero — air-cooled sites still use some water.
Direct-to-chip cold plates and rear-door HX. Designed for 40 kW-plus AI racks.
Network carriers
7On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
1Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Rimouski, QC
48.449°, -68.524° · North America
Tenants / users
TELUS sovereign AI, Canadian enterprise, TOP500
Notes
Canada's first fully sovereign AI factory. Fastest Canadian system on TOP500 at launch, sold out within months. Bas-Saint-Laurent hydro, not a Montréal carrier hotel. Dual-site with Kamloops AI Factory.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.