OpenAI is interested in securing data-centre capacity in Canada and says it can be a part of the country’s effort to build sovereign artificial-intelligence capabilities, the company’s chief global affairs officer said in an interview Tuesday.

OpenAI’s Chris Lehane said the company has already announced a number of initiatives in countries such as Germany and Norway that involve either building infrastructure for AI or purchasing capacity. OpenAI is exploring a similar approach in Canada.

“It is about being a true, real partner here on the ground in Canada. That could be a full-stack infrastructure. It could be doing some version of committing to buying compute,” he said, using industry jargon for the computer chips that power AI models and applications. “It could be helping to support

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