Alberta pitches cheap natural gas for data center boom, at odds with Canada’s clean power aims

Alberta is touting its abundant supply of cheap fossil fuels to entice tech companies to build data centers for the AI boom, a move that would undermine Canada’s plan to link new data center development with clean energy expansion. Canada is the world’s fifth-largest producer of natural gas, around 60 per cent of which comes from Alberta. As well as huge fossil fuel reserves, the western province boasts a cooler climate that can offset the cooling costs of data center infrastructure and plenty of available land. All that can make operating data centers more cost-efficient than in the United St…