Q01–Énergir Waste Heat Recovery Program

Q01 campus / adjacent agricultural and industrial lands, Quebec, CanadaProposedProgram

Headline capacity: See constituent sites
Updated: Oct 28, 2026

Q01–Énergir Waste Heat Recovery Program is a heat-reuse distribution program linked to Q01. Up-to-96 MW potential is thermal infrastructure, not data center IT capacity.

Capacity

Maximum thermal distribution potential

Planned / design or future potential

96 MW

Source

Operating IT capacity: Not established in published records

A missing figure does not mean zero. Planned, utility and generation figures are not operating IT capacity.

Development

Initial heat-network designAnnounced or preconstruction

First delivery was forecast for early 2024; completion has not been publicly disclosed.

Milestones (2)

QScale and Énergir heat-recovery collaboration announced

Mar 16, 2023 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Announced

Source not linked

Historical first-delivery target passed without confirmation

2024 · Event timing type not established

Status not stated · Event type not stated

Source not linked

Participants

Énergir Development

Developer

Sources by role

Developer (1)

QScale and Energir Development collaborate on waste heat recovery · Mar 16, 2023 · Primary

Capital & incentives

Capital claims

Waste heat price to program

Source report

CA$0

Source

Site & development

Nearby agricultural industrial land

Source report

100 hectares approx.

Source

Additional project facts

Household heating equivalent

Source report

15,000 households+

Source

Prefeasibility completed

Source report

True

Source

First delivery verified

Source report

False

Source

Program is IT capacity

Source report

False

Source

Infrastructure & permits

Technical details (1)

Heat reuse

Potential or planned

96 MW thermal potential

QScale supplies free waste heat; Énergir designs through operation of distribution projects.

Public-source research. Plans may change. See Evidence for sources and qualifications.