"Our goal is to build Canada's first trillion dollar company."

Graeme Harrison and Dan Chapman co-founded Augur VC, then incubated Simply Silicon out of their first fund. Their first data centre site, Foundation, is being built in downtown Calgary right now. Their plan is to build many more, across North America, all powering the AI native economy.

This is the inaugural episode of Tech Thursday: House Calls. Our new on-site interview series, where we go inside the companies and have conversations in the rooms where the work is happening.

Along the way: why they called an Alberta data centre bubble in 2024 and started building one anyway, the conduit network moat that even Elon Musk couldn't replicate, the just sovereign versus also sovereign framework for evaluating AI infrastructure, and the plan to build something Canada has never produced before.

Recorded on-site at Foundation in Calgary, May 2026.

Read the recap on the Calgary Tech Newsletter at calgarytech.substack.com.

Tech Thursday is Canada's largest tech community event series, hosted weekly across Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Ottawa.

Sponsored by Boast, Neo Financial, Skip, Motiv, Alberta Innovates, Crestview Strategy, and BLG.