Bell Canada nearly ready to flip the switch on its AI data centre in Merritt

MERRITT, B.C. — Bell Canada has revealed more details about what is planned for its new AI data centre in Merritt, which is expected to be up and running in the coming weeks.

The telecommunications giant announced plans for the new facility near the Merritt Municipal Airport last June, saying it would form a key component of a Bell AI Fabric supercluster in B.C.

In a news release issued Wednesday (March 25), Bell says BUZZ High Performance Computing (HPC) will use 6.5 megawatts of power at the data centre to “continue scaling its next-generation GPU (graphics processing unit) clusters for commercial use.”