Dell Technologies and IREN Partner to Deliver NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 AI Infrastructure to Canada, Accelerating North American Sovereign AI Capabilities
Dell Technologies, in collaboration with IREN, is advancing large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure deployment across North America through a deepened strategic partnership with NVIDIA. Together, the organizations are introducing fully integrated, liquid-cooled Dell racks featuring Dell PowerEdge XE9712 servers equipped with the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 accelerated computing platform—marking the first deployment of this groundbreaking system in Canada. This next-generation platform is engineered to support both demanding AI training workloads and high-performance inferencing with advanced reasoning capabilities, enabling organizations to innovate faster, operate more efficiently and unlock new opportunities powered by AI.
Why This Milestone Matters
Demand for high-capacity AI compute environments continues to surge, driven by the rapid adoption of generative AI, enterprise reasoning systems, and intelligent automation technologies. Organizations around the world are racing to build infrastructure capable of supporting massive data processing, real-time inference, and iterative model training. As models become more complex and datasets expand exponentially, conventional compute architectures struggle to keep pace.
Recent major AI infrastructure deals underscore the urgency behind scaling AI compute. For example, IREN’s expansion supporting Microsoft at its facility in Childress, Texas—in partnership with Dell—represents a significant breakthrough demonstrating the rising need for integrated, power-efficient AI systems. This momentum highlights a critical reality: enterprises require infrastructure that is not only powerful, but also secure, scalable, energy-efficient and operable at global scale.
Dell Technologies and IREN are addressing this challenge directly. By combining Dell’s AI Factory with NVIDIA—an integrated AI platform spanning hardware, software and services—with IREN’s extensive expertise in renewable-powered hyperscale data centers, the partnership delivers dense, secure and resilient compute that empowers customers to accelerate innovation with confidence.
Advancing Canada’s Sovereign AI Strategy and Innovation Leadership
A major milestone of this collaboration is the deployment of Dell PowerEdge servers using the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform at IREN’s Prince George data center in British Columbia—the first deployment of this advanced infrastructure cluster anywhere in Canada. This facility will also incorporate NVIDIA Mission Control software to orchestrate and manage complex AI workloads across distributed environments.
The Prince George deployment plays a pivotal role in supporting Canada’s Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, a national initiative focused on expanding domestic high-performance compute capacity and strengthening Canada’s position as a global AI leader. Ensuring sovereign access to AI compute resources is increasingly viewed as essential to economic security, technological competitiveness and innovation autonomy—particularly as nations seek to protect sensitive data, intellectual property and research value from international dependency and risk.
By establishing advanced AI infrastructure on Canadian soil, the collaboration enables Canadian industries, researchers, public institutions and private enterprises to train sophisticated AI models and perform inference at scale while maintaining full control over their data. With the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA serving as the technology foundation, users gain the ability to build and deploy powerful AI systems supported by built-in security, trusted operational reliability and sustainable, high-availability performance.
This deployment not only strengthens Canada’s digital infrastructure, but also expands the nation’s capacity to accelerate scientific research, enhance healthcare innovation, improve public services, and cultivate a thriving ecosystem of AI development and commercialization.
Building the Next Generation of Efficient, Scalable AI Infrastructure
IREN is deploying a blended architecture of air-cooled and liquid-cooled compute systems across its next-generation Canadian data center environments. This includes Dell PowerEdge XE9780 servers powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs along with liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9712 systems equipped with the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform. Delivered as fully integrated Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems, these deployments arrive pre-configured and optimized to reduce installation complexity and accelerate customer time-to-value.
In addition, IREN is maximizing energy performance by building facilities directly connected to the electrical grid and operating on renewable power resources—strengthening environmental impact standards while enabling more consistent, high-density compute performance. The combination of direct grid interconnection and advanced liquid-cooling creates a highly efficient thermal and power environment capable of supporting the extreme density requirements of modern AI acceleration.
To support large-scale data operations, the infrastructure utilizes Dell ObjectScale, recognized as the industry’s highest-performance object storage platform. ObjectScale enables massive, multi-petabyte capacity with extremely high accessibility and redundancy, ensuring customers can efficiently manage global data distribution and high-speed replication across multiple sites.
Networking performance is driven by the NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking platform, providing the bandwidth and low-latency interconnect essential for scaling high-performance AI clusters and supporting workloads that demand exceptional throughput.
To ensure operational continuity, customers also benefit from Dell ProSupport Plus, which delivers comprehensive deployment-to-operation support, including on-site engineering assistance to maintain consistent performance and availability throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.
Leadership Perspectives
Arthur Lewis, President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies
Together with IREN, we are powering human progress through sustainable innovation. By pairing our advanced AI infrastructure and services through the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA with IREN’s next-generation data centers, we are shaping the future of high-performance computing to power tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
Kent Draper, Chief Commercial officer, IREN
Our vertically integrated AI Cloud platform is purpose-built to deliver high-performance compute at scale. Leveraging the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, we enable customers to achieve maximum efficiency and performance of their AI workloads. With over 3GW of secured power and a rapidly expanding data center footprint, we have a strong foundation for continued large-scale deployments across North America.
Driving the Future of Sustainable, Scalable AI Computing
As AI becomes a defining capability for global competitiveness and digital transformation, the need for secure, energy-efficient and scalable compute infrastructure is more urgent than ever. The partnership between Dell Technologies, IREN and NVIDIA represents a major step toward meeting that demand—empowering North American organizations to push AI boundaries while operating responsibly and sustainably.
The introduction of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72-powered infrastructure to Canada marks a transformative moment for the region’s AI landscape. By delivering cutting-edge compute resources, locally controlled and powered by renewables, the collaboration supports a future where innovation is accessible, sovereign and environmentally responsible.
This milestone underscores a shared commitment to unlocking human potential through technology—and accelerating the breakthroughs that will define the next decade of AI progress.
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