A 14-acre ecological data centre at 1001 Kramp Road in Woolwich, in the heart of Waterloo Region. A 40 MW AI data centre and a 200,000 sq ft greenhouse share a single closed energy loop - every megawatt of compute heat is recovered to grow fresh food year-round. Around that loop: a fresh greenhouse market, a farm-to-table restaurant, a public education centre, and an agricultural research lab. A closed-loop model, brought to the community and opened to the public.
Most data centres dump their heat to the sky behind a fence. SPUR Ag Tech does the opposite: the compute floor is the furnace for a working greenhouse, and the whole campus is open to the community - a place to shop, eat, learn, and research the future of food. Six systems, engineered as one.
SPUR Ag Tech Innovation Centre takes proven closed-loop physics - compute heat grows food - and puts it on a human-scale farm in Waterloo Region, with the doors open to the public.
A 40 MW data centre rejects roughly 40 MW of heat. Instead of cooling towers, that heat is piped straight into 200,000 sq ft of greenhouse. The hotter the AI floor runs, the more tomatoes, peppers and greens the campus grows - year-round, through Ontario winters.
This is not a render of a future site. 1001 Kramp Road is an operating greenhouse today - 4.67 acres already under glass and poly, with upgraded hydro and an on-site generator. SPUR is converting and expanding a real, productive farm.
Unlike a fenced hyperscale site, the Ag Tech Centre invites the community in. A fresh market sells the harvest, a farm-to-table restaurant serves it, and families can walk the greenhouse and learn how food and technology come together.
The education centre teaches children and adults about food - where it comes from, how to grow it, and the technology now transforming agriculture. School programs, workshops and guided tours turn a data centre into a classroom.
The on-site agri research lab works on controlled-environment agriculture, vertical farming, plant science and crop AI - with direct access to the compute floor metres away. The data centre is the brain of the farm.
Canadian soil, PIPEDA-aligned, no US CLOUD Act exposure - minutes from the 700,000 sq ft SPUR Waterloo flagship and tied into the SPUR encrypted overlay mesh for cross-site failover and backup. AI capacity where Canada's tech talent already is.
Concept renders of the SPUR Ag Tech Innovation Centre - the ecological data centre, the greenhouse, and the public venues that ring the closed energy loop.
Aerial render of the full campus at golden hour - the greenhouse spans glowing warm beside the data centre hall, ringed by the market, restaurant, education centre and research lab, with parking and walking paths through Woolwich farmland.
200,000 sq ft of climate-controlled growing space, heated by recovered compute heat. Rows of tomatoes, peppers and leafy greens under spectrum-tuned light, productive through the Ontario winter.
A glass-walled, liquid-cooled AI data centre with living plant walls between the aisles. The heat its GPUs reject is the heat the greenhouse runs on - biophilic design with a working purpose.
A public market hall stocked with produce picked metres away - tomatoes, greens and herbs at peak freshness with zero food miles. Open to the Woolwich and Waterloo Region community year-round.
Dining built into the greenhouse itself - a kitchen plating crops grown a few steps from the table, surrounded by the plants on the menu.
Interactive exhibits and hands-on planting beds where children and families learn how food grows and how agriculture and technology meet. A data centre doubling as a classroom.
Controlled-environment agriculture, vertical farming and crop-AI research, running on the compute floor next door. Where the future of food gets prototyped.
Marketing-distribution figures. Commercial terms and tenant detail available under NDA.
A working farm becoming a data centre that grows food - and opens its doors to the community. Whether you are a compute tenant, a research partner, a school, or a neighbour, the conversation starts here.
