HPE has selected QScale to host its AI cloud for North America.

It is using QScale’s Q01 data center in Quebec, Canada, for the service, which is designed to help businesses train, fine-tune, and deploy AI models at scale.

QScale said its “sustainable infrastructure enabled HPE to minimize the environmental footprint of its solution while ensuring rapid deployment timelines.”

Javier Montoya, site manager for data center operations at HPE, said: “QScale's operational excellence has consistently impressed us at HPE, where their team’s proactive approach and responsiveness have been key to our success in maintaining peak computing performance.”

HPE has been an anchor tenant at Q01 since last year. Work on the data center started in 2021, and once it is complete it is expected to have 142MW of IT capacity. The company says the data center, winner of the North American Data Center Project of the Year at the 2023 DCD Awards, is powered by 100 percent renewable energy, and uses liquid cooling and waste heat recovery, as well as natural cooling from Quebec’s chilly climate.

“QScale's technical expertise and commitment to sustainability were critical in enabling us to bring our AI Cloud to market quickly and responsibly,” said Mike Wangsmo, director of AI cloud data centers at HPE.

QScale was founded in 2018 by Vincent Thibault, Dany Perron, and Martin Bouchard, with the aim of providing infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing. Last year it took investment from US operator Aligned Data Centers to help it built out its portfolio.

The company has previously announced plans for a second facility in the Ecoparc de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Montreal. It hopes to place greenhouses on its campuses and use the excess heat for agriculture.