{"id":3974,"date":"2026-03-18T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/bell-announces-12-billion-ai-data-centre-1600-new-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:07:17","slug":"bell-announces-12-billion-ai-data-centre-1600-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/bell-announces-12-billion-ai-data-centre-1600-new-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell announces $12\u2011billion AI data centre, 1,600 new jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Saskatchewan\u2019s Crown corporations are coordinating to support the development. SaskPower has begun work on the first phase of the transmission interconnection, expected to be complete by the end of 2026, to provide reliable power. SaskTel\u2019s fibre optic transport network will deliver \u201cresilient, diverse, and reliable connectivity,\u201d linking the facility to Bell\u2019s national fibre backbone, and the two companies will explore collaboration on AI\u2011powered products and services. SaskEnergy will build natural gas infrastructure for on\u2011site gas\u2011fired power generation, including a new high\u2011pressure pipeline and high\u2011volume meter station.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan\u2019s Crown corporations are coordinating to support the development. SaskPower has begun work on the first phase of the transmission interconnection, expected to be complete by the end of 2026, to provide reliable power. SaskTel\u2019s fibre optic transport network will deliver \u201cresilient, diverse, and reliable connectivity,\u201d linking the facility to Bell\u2019s national fibre backbone, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2740,732,2739,1411,465,2741],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-12billion","tag-announces","tag-bell","tag-centre","tag-data","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}