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Podcast: Behind the Growth
Episode: Saeed Shamsi on Sovereign AI Data Centers in Canada
Description: Saeed Shamsi, Director of Engineering and AI Factory Lead at TELUS, joins Mudassar Malik on Behind the Growth to break down what it takes to build enterprise AI infrastructure that can ship fast, compliant, and within Canada’s regulatory boundaries. He opens by grounding the conversation in TELUS’s evolution beyond telecom, and why its expansion into data-driven businesses made sovereign AI a practical necessity, not a future bet. Saeed explains why TELUS refers to its infrastructure as an “AI factory,” describing it as a system that turns power, cooling, and compute into usable intelligence at scale. He walks...