What Telus's downtown Vancouver AI data centres mean for housing, energy, and the city
Two downtown Vancouver data centres announced May 11, 2026: the M3 building at 111 East 5th Avenue (a 77,000 sq ft conversion of the former Hootsuite headquarters) and 150 West Georgia Street (a 400,000 sq ft new build above Creative Energy's downtown steam plant). 150 megawatts of BC Hydro capacity targeted by 2032, federal Sovereign AI funding under negotiation, 60,000+ GPUs. The Foundation scores the project against the deprivation and fulfillment flows of downtown Vancouver and publishes a provisional placement.
Provisional weighted moral work at τ=1: W = −7. Aggregate dot at F = +9, A = −14 (Absorber, near the Extractor border at F = 0). Federal funding under the Sovereign AI Compute Strategy is announced but not yet committed to Telus.