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5C Group

Cloud & Digital InfrastructureSaint-Laurent, QC

Saint-Laurent, Quebec company formed in 2025 when Hypertec Cloud, spun out of Hypertec Group, acquired 5C Data Centers. It develops, builds and operates AI data-centre campuses in the US and offers bare-metal GPU capacity. Hypertec, a separate firm, makes servers.

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About

Company site: 5c.ai

Saint-Laurent, Quebec company formed in 2025 when Hypertec Cloud, spun out of Hypertec Group, acquired 5C Data Centers. It develops, builds and operates AI data-centre campuses in the US and offers bare-metal GPU capacity. Hypertec, a separate firm, makes servers.

  • Formed on April 10, 2025, when Hypertec Cloud acquired 5C Data Centers. The deal spun Hypertec Cloud out of Hypertec Group, and the release calls the new 5C Group "a new independent entity". 5c.ai

  • Every campus on its data-centre page is in the US: Columbus, Ohio (75 MW) and Memphis (20 MW) are marked fully committed, alongside US Southwest, Northeast and Southeast regions. 5c.ai

  • Strategic collaboration with AMD on AMD Helios-ready AI campuses, announced July 2026. Initial deployments are underway in Ohio and Memphis, each for a different neocloud customer. 5c.ai

  • Partner with Mila and Hypertec in a Sovereign AI Research Hub of up to 3 MW at Hypertec's LaSalle campus. The up-to-$250M investment is in Hypertec's campus, not 5C's own money. 5c.ai

  • Its US$605M August 2026 debt financing is to fund the acquisition and construction of its Memphis campus and the development of its Ohio and Phoenix campuses. 5c.ai

  • Lists its headquarters at 9300 Route Trans-Canada, St-Laurent, Québec. 5c.ai

Products & Services

Company site: 5c.ai

Products 5C Group publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

5C Cloud

Cloud

Dedicated AI infrastructure for training, fine-tuning and inference. It comes as bare metal, where 5C supplies and runs the servers, or as customer-owned inventory, where 5C manages network and storage around the customer's hardware. Capacity comes from 5C-owned and partner data centres.

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5C Data Centers

Data Centers

Designs, builds and operates large AI data-centre campuses with air, direct-to-chip or immersion cooling. Turnkey service covers the facility; Turnkey+ also deploys and commissions the customer's GPU clusters.

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Funding & Investors

Announced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.

  1. Debt financing

    Aug 10, 2026

    US$605.0M5c.ai

    Investors: Brookfield Asset Management (lead)

  2. Equity and debt financing (equity led by Brookfield, debt led by Deutsche Bank)

    Jul 23, 2025

    US$835.0M5c.ai

    Investors: Brookfield Asset Management (lead), Deutsche Bank (lead)

Total disclosed: US$1.4BLatest: Debt financing · Aug 10, 2026

Partnerships

Publicly announced partnerships.

AMD

Strategic collaboration to build AMD Helios-ready gigascale AI campuses, with initial deployments underway in Ohio and Memphis.

Mila

Strategic collaboration with Mila and Hypertec on a Sovereign AI Research Hub of up to 3 MW at Hypertec's LaSalle campus in Montreal.

Recent News

  1. Aug 10, 2026Funding

    5C Secures More Than US$1.4 Billion to Power North America’s AI Infrastructure

    5C closed US$605 million in new debt financing led by Brookfield Asset Management, on top of the US$835 million in equity and debt it raised in 2025. The money will go to its priority sites, the acquisition and construction of its Memphis campus, and its Ohio and Phoenix campuses.

  2. Jul 9, 2026Partnership

    5C and AMD Collaborate to Advance the Next Generation of Gigascale AI Campuses

    5C and AMD announced a strategic collaboration to develop AI campuses ready for AMD Helios rack-scale systems. The two are working on a wider roadmap of AMD-optimised capacity, and initial deployments are underway in Ohio and Memphis for different neocloud customers.

  3. Sep 25, 2025Partnership

    Mila, 5C and Hypertec Announce $250 Million LaSalle Campus and Sovereign AI Research Hub to Strengthen Canada’s Role as a Global Leader in AI Innovation

    Mila, 5C and Hypertec announced a Sovereign AI Research Hub at Hypertec's global headquarters and technology campus in LaSalle, with total investments of up to $250 million. The hub will offer up to 3 MW of secure AI infrastructure capacity, and the campus will host Hypertec's and 5C's operations.

Technology Focus

Company site: 5c.ai

Terms the company uses about its own work.

AI factoriesBare metalGPU clustersDirect-to-chip liquid coolingImmersion cooling

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