Thursday, October 29, 2026
Canada Compute Map - Canada’s data-centre boom, counted honestly
An interactive field guide to Canada's data-centre boom: what is operating, what is proposed, and what powers it.
Ten things
- AWS, Vantage, TELUS Rimouski, QScale, and Vantage Quebec City draw on Hydro-Québec’s near-100-percent renewable grid.
- The most solid entries are cloud regions and existing campuses - less spectacular than the AI headlines, but already energized.
- Wonder Valley, Beacon Indus, Bitdeer Fox Creek, AVAX One, and Meta’s Sturgeon County project are designed around on-site natural gas or gas-led supply.
- Synapse near Olds, a hyperscale proposal near Winnipeg, and Steelport in Hamilton show where projects did not survive regulatory or community scrutiny.
- Explore 18 tracked Canadian data-centre projects by status, capacity, power source, and location.
- Operator announcements from Meta, eStruxture, Vantage, QScale, TELUS, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Bitdeer, and O’Leary Ventures.
- The four cloud regions are the most credible entries partly because they predate the current AI boom.
- The host, analyst, and reporter work through what is operating, what remains a claim, and what powers the proposed build.
- GW requested against an interim connection allowance of roughly 1.2 GW through 2028.
- An interactive field guide to Canada's data-centre boom: what is operating, what is proposed, and what powers it.
Five questions
Which term completes this sourced statement? “AWS, Vantage, TELUS _____, QScale, and Vantage Quebec City draw on Hydro-Québec’s near-100-percent renewable grid.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “Wonder Valley, Beacon Indus, Bitdeer Fox Creek, AVAX One, and Meta’s _____ County project are designed around on-site natural gas or gas-led supply.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “Explore 18 tracked _____ data-centre projects by status, capacity, power source, and location.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “The four cloud regions are the most _____ entries partly because they predate the current AI boom.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “GW requested against an interim _____ allowance of roughly 1.2 GW through 2028.”