Bell newest data centre in Merritt, anchoring new Bell AI Fabric partnership

There is an exciting announcement this morning from Bell Canada pertaining to the City of Merritt.

Bell Canada announced today that through the growth of Bell AI Fabric and through an expanded partnership with BUZZ High Performance Computing (HPC), that Bell Canada is opening its newest data centre in Merritt.

In a press release issued from Montreal, BUZZ HPC has secured an immediate 6.5 MW of gross capacity at the Bell AI Fabric Merritt facility, with an option for potential additional power that may become available over time.

“We are excited to deliver cutting-edge AI infrastructure and deployment expertise to our customers through our partnership with BUZZ HPC at our Merritt facility,” wrote John Watson, Group President, Business Markets, AI and Ateko, Bell. “This partnership provides another important layer to the Bell AI Fabric ecosystem, delivering the advanced workloads our customers need in a sovereign, private and secure Canadian facility. Partnerships like these are instrumental to BCE Inc. delivering on our ambition to grow our revenue from AI-powered solutions to $2 billion by 2028.”

The Merritt data centre is specifically engineered to handle AI’s most intense computational demands.

Last year Bell Canada rolled out “Bell AI Fabric” opening facilities in Kamloops and two on the TRU campus, and the facility in Merritt.

It was also announced last year, that Bell was looking at locating one of Canada’s largest AI data centres in the Upper Nicola Indian Band area, that has the potential of bringing close to 2000 jobs to the region.

More to come…