TELUS Sovereign AI Factory (Rimouski)

Also known as Sovereign AI Factory

Operated by TELUS at TELUS Rimouski Data Centre .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

Rmax: 22.74 PFlop/s
Rpeak: 27.44 PFlop/s
Rmax ÷ Rpeak: 82.9%
Cores: 70,560
Power: -
Per watt: - GF/W

Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role	Part	Supplier at build	Quantity	Confidence	Source
Integrator	- HPE ProLiant Compute XD platform; design and implementation partner	Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPENYSE	-	Verified	telus.com thefastmode.com
Accelerator	NVIDIA H200 SXM Accelerators CUDA (Hopper GH100) · 16,896C · 1.98 GHz · TSMC 4N · 700 W NVIDIA H200 GPUs (141GB HBM3e); exact GPU count undisclosed, TOP500 records 70,560 total cores across the system	NVIDIA NVDANASDAQ	-	Verified	telus.com top500.org
Interconnect	NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2) Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 400 Gb/s per port · Under 0.6 microseconds NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand fabric	NVIDIA NVDANASDAQ	-	Verified	telus.com thefastmode.com

The read

TELUS's first Sovereign AI Factory, opened 24 September 2025 in a Tier III, LEED Gold data center in Rimouski, Quebec, and first announced at NVIDIA GTC in March 2025. Built on HPE ProLiant Compute XD infrastructure with NVIDIA H200 GPUs (141GB HBM3e) over NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand, run on renewable hydroelectric power. Debuted at rank 78 on the November 2025 TOP500 list at 22.74 PFlop/s Rmax and 27.44068 PFlop/s Rpeak across 70,560 cores (HPL-measured), which TELUS and NVIDIA describe as Canada's fastest publicly benchmarked supercomputer and the only telecom-operated system on the list; it fell to rank 95 on the June 2026 list as other systems were added. Exact GPU count and CPU model are not disclosed by TELUS. Capacity sold out shortly after opening, prompting TELUS's planned expansion to Kamloops and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Timeline

2025-03-18 Announced source
2025-09-24 First operational source
2025-11 List debut at #78 (November 2025) source

Public list appearances

Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.

#78: TOP500, November 2025 →

Site & facility

TELUS Rimouski Data Centre

Location: Rimouski, Canada
Commissioned: 2025

telus.com

Change history

2026-09-30 TELUS Sovereign AI Factory (Rimouski) added, TELUS's NVIDIA H200 cluster ranked 78th on the November 2025 TOP500 list

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
telus.com	names system and part	NVIDIA H200 SXM, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2)
top500.org	names system and part	NVIDIA H200 SXM, NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Quantum-2)

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.