An AI company.A proposed Labrador AI campus.

Open People is an AI company in Newfoundland and Labrador. Tom Lane is the founder.

We also lead a proposed research campus beside it: residencies, fellowships, gatherings, in the spirit of the Perimeter Institute and the Banff Centre.

Write to tom@openpeople.ai.

About Open People

The firm, clean power that can host it already exists in this province.

Open People leads a proposed 500 MW Labrador AI campus on that power, in feasibility.

The campus is proposed and in feasibility. Phase 1 is a written request to NL Hydro and a non-firm, interruptible pilot. No megawatts are reserved.

Partnership, if any, will be on terms each nation sets.

It is not approved. It is not funded. It is not under construction. Mines and existing industry are real constraints on the same power.

Build trackCompute plan

ISED invited proposals for sovereign, large-scale AI data centres with planned capacity greater than 100 MW. The call ran from 15 January to 15 February 2026. It is now closed. Selected projects may enter a non-binding memorandum of understanding.

ISED lists Indigenous participation as one of its criteria. Any role is for each nation to decide.

A separate programme, the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, was announced in Budget 2024 as $2 billion over five years, starting in 2024–25. That is not the 100 MW call.

• ISED — Enabling large-scale sovereign AI data centres (call 15 Jan–15 Feb 2026, now closed; >100 MW; Indigenous participation is a listed criterion) →
• ISED — Enabling large-scale sovereign AI data centres intake form (potential non-binding MOU) →
• ISED — Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy (Budget 2024, $2 billion over five years, starting 2024–25) →

Open People is not a party to the Churchill Falls agreement. The public power record is on the tracker, the brief, and the power track.

Power trackBriefTracker