Alberta Sets the Standard
In 2026, the Province of Alberta issued a Pre-Qualification Request for a Sovereign Compute Environment to process up to nine petabytes of government data spanning health, social services, justice, corrections, and public safety. The PQR explicitly defines sovereign compute as an environment where all data remains under exclusive Canadian legal control, prohibiting any access subject to foreign laws or extraterritorial claims. This is not Protected B certification — it is a sovereignty requirement that goes far beyond technical security controls.
Three Categories of Need
Alberta's framework identifies three capability categories: compute infrastructure for AI workloads using a hub-and-spoke model, AI solutions including open-source model deployment and agentic workflows, and analytics for spending analysis, fraud detection, and cross-jurisdictional benchmarking. Every category requires delivery within the sovereign compute environment. Proprietary tools that phone home to foreign servers are explicitly restricted. Open source is preferred. This framework will become the template for other provinces.
Building What Provinces Need
Yamoria is purpose-built for this moment. Founded by Jerald Sibbeston in the Northwest Territories, Yamoria delivers sovereign compute from Canadian soil using open-source stacks, Canadian-owned hardware, and personnel with Canadian security clearances. The infrastructure provinces need is not hypothetical. It is being built now.