Alberta pitches cheap natural gas for data centre boom, at odds with Canada’s clean power aims - BNN Bloomberg
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Article Excerpt
CALGARY -- Alberta is touting its abundant supply of cheap fossil fuels to entice tech companies to build data centres for the AI boom, a move that would undermine Canada’s plan to link new data centre 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 province boasts a cooler climate that can offset the cooling costs of data centre infrastructure and plenty of available land. All that can make operating data centres more cost-efficient than in the Unite…
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