Clean grid first
British Columbia’s hydro-dominated grid provides the backbone; Interior solar can supplement the dry, sunny Phase I corridor.
Phase I: Interior • Phase II: Fraser Valley
Grow food.
Run AI.
Reuse the heat.
A proposed British Columbia network where clean electricity powers distributed data centres, recovered heat supports greenhouses and food processing, and dedicated fibre links communities into one regional compute fabric.
2 phasesInterior first; Fraser Valley second
15 communitiesPrimary screening nodes across both phases
575–925Indicative direct permanent roles at full concept build-out
98% cleanBC Hydro generation is reported as 98% renewable/clean
A different infrastructure model
Compute becomes part of the farm.
Instead of rejecting server heat to the atmosphere and importing separate heat for agriculture, the project co-locates compute, heat users, food systems, storage and local services.
Distributed AI sites
Modular edge-scale data centres are sized to local grid, fibre, land and heat demand rather than forcing every load into one mega-campus.
Useful recovery
Liquid-cooled compute makes low-grade heat easier to capture for greenhouses, aquaculture, drying, wash-water and district loops.
Protected agriculture
Year-round production extends growing seasons, reduces exposure to smoke, frost and heat extremes, and turns energy infrastructure into local food infrastructure.
“The best data centre heat-rejection system is one that sells or uses the heat before it ever reaches a cooling tower.”
Phase I
Thompson–Okanagan–Lillooet
Ten principal community nodes follow the Interior corridor from the Fraser canyon through Kamloops and the Shuswap, then south through the Okanagan.
Phase II
Fraser Valley food + compute belt
Hope, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Mission and Maple Ridge extend the system into one of Canada’s most important greenhouse and agricultural regions, with a fibre handoff toward Metro Vancouver.
Community-first design
Infrastructure with a local dividend.
The benefit model is meant to be negotiated locally rather than imposed from outside.
Local hiring
Qualified local residents first, apprenticeship pathways, and a proposed wage target at least 10% above comparable local market midpoints.
Food & heat
Community greenhouse allocations, food-processing partnerships and low-cost recovered-heat programs can be structured as site-specific benefits.
Equity pathways
Municipal, First Nations, co-operative or community benefit participation can be negotiated before final investment decisions.
Built into the package
See the two phases and the technology.
The website ships with its own high-resolution B.C. network graphics and infrastructure visual library — no missing hot-linked hero photographs.
