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Bell Canada

www.bell.ca

Canadian communications company (BCE).

Track Bell Canada
HQ
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Status
public

Overview

Canadian communications company (BCE). Via Bell AI Fabric, building AI data-centre capacity including a 300 MW campus in the Rural Municipality of Sherwood near Regina, Saskatchewan (CoreWeave and Cerebras named tenants; first stage targeted 1H 2027).

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Key facts

300 MW AI Fabric campus near Regina; first hall 1H 2027; CoreWeave + Cerebras tenants (company-stated, 2026)

Company-stated (company-stated; also May update): Bell Canada / BCE announced a 300 MW Bell AI Fabric data centre in the Rural Municipality of Sherwood, Saskatchewan (just outside Regina). March 16 2026 release: Cerebras and CoreWeave secured as tenants; construction spring 2026; facility comes online in stages with first stage expected 1H 2027; ~$1.7B incremental capex. May 4 2026: early site works began April 21 after RM of Sherwood development agreement; first data hall still expected 1H 2027. Cap: company primary. Digest X claim that "3 of 4 halls [are] framed" is not in these Bell releases and is held.

Sherwood AI Fabric capex and jobs

Bell's March 16, 2026 release on the 300 MW Rural Municipality of Sherwood AI Fabric campus says construction will support at least 800 trades and engineering jobs, at least 80 full-time roles when fully operational, about $1.7 billion of incremental capital expenditures with about $1.3 billion expected in 2026, and first-stage service in the first half of 2027 (Bell / BCE).

Closed-loop cooling and First Nation agreement

The same Bell release says the project uses a closed-loop cooling system that does not draw from municipal water, that Bell entered an agreement with George Gordon First Nation on Indigenous procurement and workforce development, and that Cerebras and CoreWeave are secured tenants for wafer-scale and NVIDIA GPU compute (Bell / BCE).

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