Telus announces plans to build ‘Sovereign AI Factory’

By Connie Thiessen Telus, in collaboration with NVIDIA, has announced plans to build a Sovereign AI Factory, a secure facility promising to provide supercomputers and software needed to train AI, while keeping data safe within Canada’s borders. The telco says the factory, which will leverage its high-speed fibre-optic network, will give Canadian businesses and researchers access to cutting-edge technology to develop smarter AI products, streamline operations and stay competitive. NVIDIA’s latest Hopper- and Blackwell-based supercomputers will power the AI Factory. Telus plans to deploy NVIDIA’s latest-generation graphics processing units (GPUs), following NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) Reference Architectures and software stack, at its data centre in Quebec by this summer,...