Facility part of proposed wellness town redevelopment
A 150MW data center has been proposed in the Canadian city of Moose Jaw.
As reportedly by MooseJawToday, Carpere Canada purchased the former Valley View Centre site in 2020 under the name Carpere Valley Development Corporation, this week unveiled new plans to turn the campus into an “AI wellness town” powered by an on-site data center.
The 150-acre Carpere Valley project would feature a 150MW AI data center. The waste heat of the facility will be used to warm a nearby greenhouse. Further details haven’t been shared, but the company is working with SaskPower to secure the power needed.
The facility would be part of a proposed $485 million redevelopment to make a former care site into “the fastest-growing tech hub in the world.”
Moose Jaw is a Canadian city located 45 minutes west of Regina, Saskatchewan, Western Canada.
The site was previously the Valley View Centre, an institution dedicated to housing people with intellectual disabilities. It closed in 2019 after more than 60 years. Reports from last year suggest vandals had caused some CA$1 million worth of damage to the buildings since its closure.
Carpere Canada bought the site from the Ministry of Central Services in 2020, shortly after announcing plans to renovate a number of the development’s 23 buildings to include residential and commercial uses.
The project is set to renovate all the buildings — totaling more than 29,430 sqm (327,000 sq ft) in floor space — as well as construct new ones. Work on the first phase could begin in either late 2025 or early 2026, and will take five to eight years to complete.
The company has said it envisions student housing, multi-family dwellings, seniors’ residences, a commercial square for farmers’ markets, pop-up retail spaces, and craft beer and distillery spaces, as well as small-scale processing, manufacturing, product fabrication, and education centers.
Carpere reportedly plans to self-finance the entire project, and has submitted a rezoning application to City Hall. It expects to have a public hearing in September.
Saskatchewan has little in the way of a data center market, with four facilities operated by local operator SaskTel in Saskatoon and Regina, as well as a number of small facilities from local MSPs. Fujitsu previously operated a facility in Regina, built around 2012.
Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal have traditionally been Canada's main data center hubs. But Alberta has seen a flurry of proposed development in recent months amid an AI boom and a demand for near-term capacity - often via natural gas.
