Jet.AI Unveils Plans for Major 350-Acre Data Center Campus Near Winnipeg
December 10, 2025
In a significant move highlighting the strategic shift of capital towards energy-rich regions, Jet.AI Inc., a company transitioning from aviation services to digital infrastructure, has detailed its plans for a massive data center campus in Manitoba, Canada. The announcement underscores the intensifying competition for sites that can support the immense power demands of artificial intelligence and hyperscale computing.
The company confirmed last week that it aims to develop a 350-acre site located approximately 10 miles south of Winnipeg, in the Île-des-Chênes area. This follows a partnership announced in June with Canadian GPU cloud provider Consensus Core Technologies to develop a large-scale campus in "Midwestern Canada." The newly specified site is strategically positioned adjacent to key infrastructure, including an electrical substation, a regional natural-gas substation, and high-speed fiber routes. Crucially, it is near the Riel Converter Substation, which supplies 2,000MW of hydroelectric power, and has a 115-kV transmission corridor running directly overhead.
While full build-out details remain undisclosed, the project's scale is substantial. Initial announcements targeted an initial capacity of 100MW, with ambitions to eventually expand to 500MW. Jet.AI's recent financial filings suggest the campus will feature six natural gas turbines, indicating a hybrid power approach. The site already hosts a live 2MW data center.
Company leadership emphasized the site's rarity. "As AI compute demand accelerates, energy-advantaged sites like this are becoming increasingly difficult to secure," said Mike Winston, Founder and CEO of Jet.AI. "The combination of power, redundancy, and buildable scale here is extremely hard to replicate." Wayne Lloyd, CEO of Consensus Core, echoed this, stating, "This site aligns with the long-term compute and energy profile the industry is moving toward. It offers the reliability, connectivity, and acreage required for multi-phase hyperscale deployment."
The Winnipeg project represents a cornerstone of Jet.AI's pivot from its former aviation business, which it sold earlier this year. The company is also developing a 50MW site in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a potential long-term capacity of 1GW. For Consensus Core, currently operating from a Cologix facility in Montreal, this campus is part of a broader expansion that includes a second Canadian "Maritime" project targeting up to 1GW of capacity, potentially sourced from a nearby wind farm. The development signals a growing trend of operators targeting Canadian provinces with reliable, often renewable, power grids to meet the insatiable demands of next-generation computing.
Source: datacenterdynamics
Jet.AI Unveils Plans for Major 350-Acre Data Center Campus Near Winnipeg
