Prairie2Cloud is building Canada's first purpose-built sovereign AI data centre in Saskatchewan — filling a critical gap in western Canadian compute capacity. CLOUD Act-immune by corporate structure. Net-zero by design. Indigenous partnership from day one.
Regulated Canadian sectors — finance, healthcare, defence, research — are blocked from adopting AI because they cannot use foreign-jurisdiction cloud infrastructure. OSFI B-13 requires Canadian financial institutions to control their data. Provincial health acts demand domestic residency. Federal security classifications prohibit cross-border transfer.
Under the U.S. CLOUD Act, any U.S.-headquartered cloud provider can be compelled to hand over data regardless of where it is stored. No amount of contractual language or regional data residency changes this legal reality. True sovereignty requires Canadian-owned infrastructure — not a branding exercise.
The result: billions in AI investment stalled, and Canada's most sensitive workloads either stay on-premises or don't run at all. Prairie2Cloud exists to eliminate that forced trade-off.
| Location | Belle Plaine area, Saskatchewan — western Canada's only purpose-built AI data centre site, adjacent to the province's Carbon Corridor with direct access to CCUS infrastructure |
| Model | Powered-shell colocation and build-to-suit — tenants bring their own GPU/compute; P2C provides power, cooling, connectivity, and sovereignty guarantees. Designed for anchor tenancy and long-term capacity agreements. |
| Cooling | Single-phase immersion cooling for AI-density racks (40–80 kW per rack), with waste heat recovery potential |
| Power | Behind-the-meter islanded microgrid — N+1 natural gas turbines with battery energy storage. Zero grid dependency, zero community rate impact. Secured gas supply confirmed. |
| Connectivity | Carrier-neutral with 400 GbE backbone, dark fibre paths to major Canadian IXPs |
| Sovereignty | 100% Canadian-owned corporate structure — CLOUD Act immunity is structural, not contractual |
| Certifications | Targeting SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ITSG-33 PBMM |
| Scale Pathway | Site infrastructure designed for multi-phase expansion to 300 MW and beyond, leveraging existing gas supply capacity |
Canadian law + Indigenous governance participation. Not a contractual workaround — a structural guarantee.
Belle Plaine Carbon Corridor access for CCS. Waste heat recovery. Target net-zero operations by 2035.
Behind-the-meter islanded microgrid with secured gas supply. Zero grid competition, zero community rate impact, zero utility queue.
Phase 1 is 10 MW. The site, gas supply, and design support expansion to gigawatt-scale compute.
Departments with Protected B workloads that cannot leave Canadian jurisdiction. AI inference on sensitive datasets without cross-border risk.
OSFI B-13 regulated institutions managing trillions in assets. AI model training on Canadian financial data with domestic residency guarantees.
Provincial health authorities, research hospitals, and pharma companies needing PHIPA/HIA-compliant AI infrastructure.
Universities and research consortia requiring sovereign HPC for AI training, with Tri-Council RDM compliance.
Precision agriculture AI, resource optimization, and climate modelling — Saskatchewan's core sectors, served locally.
Global cloud platforms need Canadian sovereign capacity to serve regulated customers but cannot build CLOUD Act-immune facilities themselves. P2C provides the structural solution as a build-to-suit or anchor tenancy partner.
Prairie2Cloud is designed for co-investment and long-term capacity agreements — not as a captive facility but as sovereign infrastructure that multiple partners can anchor into. The powered-shell model means partners deploy their own technology stack into a facility that guarantees Canadian sovereignty, clean energy, and community benefit by structure.
Long-term capacity commitments that convert project financing from speculative to investment-grade. Anchor tenants shape facility specs during FEED.
Custom capacity built to partner specifications within the sovereign facility envelope. Power density, cooling, and connectivity tailored to workload requirements.
Structured for asset-level co-investment alongside infrastructure and institutional capital. Phase 1 scope is bankable; phases 2+ scale with demand.
Prairie2Cloud has systematically de-risked every critical path item: site control, power supply, Indigenous partnership, capital estimation, and regulatory pathway. This is a project ready for FEED, not a concept deck.
Prairie2Cloud is in active discussions with anchor tenants, technology partners, and government stakeholders.
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