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TELUS Rimouski Sovereign AI Factory

Rimouski, Quebec, CanadaOperating
Evidence
Headline capacity
Not established in published records
Updated
Oct 28, 2026

TELUS opened its Rimouski Sovereign AI Factory in September 2025 and reported it sold out by May 2026. Its HPE/NVIDIA system achieved 22.74 petaFLOPS on TOP500 testing.

Capacity

System cpu GPU cores

Actual

70,560 core

Compute quantity or benchmark; not power capacity

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

Rimouski AI compute deployment and openingOperational

1 building

AI system inside the existing Rimouski data center; facility MW not disclosed.

Sold-out service and inventory expansionOperational

Do not import future British Columbia capacity into Rimouski.

Milestones (6)
TELUS announces Rimouski AI deployment

Mar 18, 2025 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Announced

Source not linked
Original Rimouski opening target

2025 · Event timing type not established

Cancelled · Forecast completion

Source not linked
Rimouski Sovereign AI Factory opens

Sep 24, 2025 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Commercial operation

Source not linked
System becomes Canada's highest-ranked supercomputer

Nov 17, 2025 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Status changed

Source not linked
TELUS confirms Rimouski sold out

May 11, 2026 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Customer commitment

Source not linked
June 2026 TOP500 rank update

Jun 23, 2026 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Status changed

Source not linked

Participants

Accenture

Customer

Sources by role
Customer (1)
League

Customer

Sources by role
Customer (1)
OpenText

Customer

Sources by role
Customer (1)
TELUS

Owner

Sources by role
Owner (1)
Owner (1)
Other participants (3)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Contractor

Sources by role
Contractor (1)
Contractor (1)
NVIDIA

Supplier

Sources by role
Supplier (1)
Supplier (1)
TOP500

Government authority

Sources by role
Government authority (1)

Technical specifications

Renewable energy share

Actual

99 percent

Source

Free cooling availability

Design

98 percent of year

Source

Additional project facts

Project status

Actual

Operating

Source

Opening date

Actual

2025-09-24

Rimouski AI compute deployment and opening · Phase

Source

Commercial availability

Transaction scope

Sold out

Sold-out service and inventory expansion · Phase

Source

Hpl rmax

Actual

22.74 petaFLOPS

Source

Hpl rpeak

Actual

27.44 petaFLOPS

Source

Top500 rank

Actual

78 rank

Source

Top500 rank

Actual

95 rank

Source

GPU model

Actual

NVIDIA H200 SXM5

Source

GPU memory per device

Actual

141 GB HBM3e

Source

GPU memory bandwidth

Actual

4.8 TB per second

Source

Dedicated infiniband fabric

Actual

3.2 Tbit per second

Source

Facility certification

Actual

Tier III

Source

Sustainability certification

Actual

LEED Gold

Source

Infrastructure & permits

Technical details (5)
Compute and platform system

Operational

22.74 petaFLOPS

TOP500-listed HPL Rmax benchmark result of 22.74 petaFLOPS for the listed system. This is not electrical MW, theoretical Rpeak or continuous service throughput.

Compute and platform system

Operational

3.2 Tbit per second

infiniband fabric — 3.2 Tbit_per_second; operating.

Fiber

Operational

fiber network; operating.

Renewable energy supply

Operational

99 percent

renewable energy share — 99 percent; operating.

Cooling system

Operational

98 percent of year

free cooling — 98 percent_of_year; operating.

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

Related projects (1)
QScale Q01 Building A

Partially operational · Lévis, Quebec, Canada

Shared participant: Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Same market: Quebec, Canada

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