Canada has spent years outsourcing its AI compute needs to facilities south of the border and overseas. That chapter is getting a very expensive rewrite.
BUZZ HPC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, announced plans to develop a 320 MW AI infrastructure facility in the Greater Toronto Area. The project carries an estimated price tag of roughly CAD $3.5 billion and is designed to house more than 100,000 GPUs at full build-out.
What’s actually being built
The facility is being described as an “AI gigafactory.” A 320 MW utility capacity is enormous. To put that in perspective, a typical large data center runs somewhere in the range of 30 to 50 MW. This is roughly six to ten times that size.
BUZZ HPC is building around liquid-cooled GPU infrastructure. The facility will leverage NVIDIA GPUs, and the software orchestration layer relies on Kubernetes and Slurm, two widely used systems for managing large-scale compute clusters.
