Groq has been named the exclusive inference provider for Bell Canada’s Bell AI Fabric, a sovereign AI infrastructure project that will span six sites across Canada and scale to 500 megawatts of clean, hydro-powered compute. The initiative kicks off with a 7MW Groq-powered data center in Kamloops, British Columbia, set to go live in June.
The partnership positions Groq at the heart of Canada’s national AI strategy, delivering real-time, high-efficiency inference using its proprietary Language Processing Units (LPUs). Groq’s inference platform now exceeds 20 million tokens per second globally following the recent activation of new sites in Houston and Dallas with partners DataBank and Equinix. The Kamloops launch will anchor Bell’s AI network with low-latency and domestically governed AI compute infrastructure.
- Bell AI Fabric to span six sites across Canada, totaling 500MW of clean compute
- First 7MW Groq data center in Kamloops to begin operations in June
- Groq’s network now serves over 20 million tokens/sec across North America
- Inference runs on Groq’s custom LPU-based architecture, optimized for real-time performance
- Groq’s infrastructure enables faster deployment, lower latency, and sovereign data control
“Through Bell AI Fabric, we’re building the backbone for Canada’s AI economy,” said Mirko Bibic, President & CEO of BCE and Bell Canada. “Groq’s technology delivers the speed and efficiency our customers need—now, not years from now.”
- Groq Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, California, is a semiconductor and AI infrastructure company focused on ultra-low latency inference processing. Founded in 2016 by Jonathan Ross, a key architect behind Google’s TPU (Tensor Processing Unit), Groq developed its proprietary Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) architecture to deliver deterministic, high-speed performance for AI workloads. The company’s platform is optimized for large language models and other transformer-based architectures, enabling throughput exceeding 20 million tokens per second across its network. Groq has raised over $360 million from investors including Tiger Global and D1 Capital Partners. The company operates multiple data centers across North America and collaborates with partners like Equinix and DataBank to support deployment.
