Outside, the unassuming warehouse-like building is silent .

You’d drive by CAL-2, the largest operating data centre in the Calgary area, in an industrial park northeast of the city, without ever realizing it has 26 megawatts of power capacity to run what’s inside — enough electricity for roughly 26,000 homes.

In its depths, having passed through several hallways and doors, one of its data halls is buzzing loudly from the hum of computer servers that host cloud computing (online space that stores files and other data) for some of the world’s biggest tech companies.

Over the past year, as demand for artificial intelligence has soared with the evolution of generative AI, so has the federal government and Alberta’s interest in capitalizing on the AI boom by building data centres like CAL-2

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