June 22, 2026 Bell Canada has signed an artificial intelligence infrastructure agreement with Toronto-based Cohere that will see the AI company operate its large language models through Bell AI Fabric. The deal will use Canadian data centre infrastructure and technology from Buzz High Performance Computing, Hypertec and NVIDIA to support enterprise and government AI workloads. 

Under the agreement, Bell will provide data centre capacity at its facility in Merritt, B.C. The companies said Buzz High Performance Computing, a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Hive Digital Technologies Ltd., will provide an AI-native cloud layer. Quebec-based Hypertec will supply hardware infrastructure, while NVIDIA accelerated computing will support production-grade AI workloads.

Cohere will use the platform to run its foundation models and provide secure enterprise-grade AI services for business and government customers. The four companies said the partnership is intended to support the research and development needed to build and operate AI models using infrastructure located in Canada.

“This agreement underscores the role Bell AI Fabric is playing in helping organizations move from experimentation to production on infrastructure that is located, operated and governed in Canada,” Michel Richer, president of Bell AI Fabric, said in a news release.

Montreal-based Bell launched Bell AI Fabric more than a year ago as part of its effort to provide AI-related services to businesses and governments, including strategy, application development and infrastructure deployment. The company has described the initiative as the largest AI compute project in Canada.

The agreement builds on an earlier partnership announced by Bell and Cohere last July to provide sovereign AI solutions to government and enterprise customers across Canada. At the time, the companies said Bell AI Fabric would incorporate Cohere’s agentic AI platform, North, allowing customers to build AI agents and automation tools without managing underlying AI infrastructure.

The announcement comes as BCE Inc., Bell’s parent company, continues to expand its technology services business. BCE recently raised its revenue target for its AI business and now expects to generate about $2 billion in revenue from AI-powered enterprise solutions by 2028.

Alongside Bell AI Fabric, BCE launched technology services brand Ateko and cybersecurity business Bell Cyber last year. The company reported that revenue from AI-powered solutions across those three brands grew 113 per cent year-over-year in the first quarter.

“For enterprises and governments, adopting AI is not just about having access to powerful models,” Michael Pelosi, Cohere’s country manager for Canada, said in a statement, adding, “It’s about knowing where those models run, how data is protected and whether the technology can be deployed with the security and reliability their work requires.”