Canada seeks 100MW+ sovereign AI data centers to boost compute

Canada’s call for >100MW “sovereign AI” data centers is a clear marker that compute capacity itself is becoming a strategic asset, not just a cloud line item. By insisting on scale, indigenous participation, environmental constraints and Canadian supply chains, Ottawa is treating AI infrastructure like a mix of power grid and semiconductor fab—critical, capital‑intensive and geopolitically sensitive.([revistacloud.com](https://revistacloud.com/canada-abre-puerta-centros-datos-soberanos-ia/))

For the AGI race, this matters because it directly addresses the bottleneck everyone is quietly talking about: where do the terawatts and GPUs for the next wave of training runs actually live, and under whose legal jurisdiction. Canada already hosts major cloud regions and has abundant clean power; if this program catalyzes a handful of 100MW‑plus AI campuses, it could become a preferred site for North American and allied research consortia that want US‑adjacent capacity without US regulatory unpredictability.