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Meta laid off 8,000 employees — roughly 10% of its workforce — while redirecting 7,000 staff into AI roles and committing between $125 billion and $145 billion in 2026 capital expenditures. The restructuring is the company's largest single job cut since its 2022-2023 “Year of Efficiency,” and comes alongside canceled hiring plans for 6,000 additional positions.
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Telus’s BC AI data centre cluster is a sovereign-compute bet, not a finished build
Ottawa and Telus announced a three-site AI data centre cluster in British Columbia: Kamloops, Mount Pleasant, and downtown Vancouver. But the project is still at MOU stage, with no funding committed yet and no public pricing, GPU counts, or power capacity disclosed. For Canadian builders, the real question is whether this becomes usable domestic AI infrastructure — or just a polished policy signal that arrives after the market has already moved on.
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Telus’s BC sovereign AI build could add real Canadian compute — or just better branding
Canada and Telus say they’re advancing a sovereign AI infrastructure build in British Columbia, with three planned data centres and more than 60,000 GPUs by 2032. The big question for builders is not the ribbon-cutting; it’s whether this becomes usable Canadian compute with clear access, pricing, and procurement paths — or stays a policy label with nice hardware attached.
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