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Fears are widespread about data centre impacts on Canada’s water, environment: poll
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (454+ words) OTTAWA — A large majority of Canadians in a recent poll said they worry that artificial intelligence data centres will hike their power bills and harm the environment. In the Leger poll, 81 per cent of respondents said they are concerned about…...
Hamilton city council rejects one-year pause on AI data centres
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1071+ words) HAMILTON, ONT. — Hamilton city councillors rejected on Wednesday a temporary pause on new data centres that was eyed as a possible model for other municipalities amid the artificial intelligence boom. The city would have been the first in Canada to…...
Telus proposing to build three new data centres in British Columbia
1+ week, 6+ day ago (688+ words) Vancouver-based TELUS is working with the Canadian government and local developer Westbank Corp. on three proposed AI data centres in B.C. One is an expansion of an existing centre in Kamloops and two are new facilities in Vancouver. TELUS president and…...
Will Hamilton hit pause on data centres? Council set to vote on moratorium
1+ week, 6+ day ago (165+ words) HAMILTON, ONT. — Hamilton is expected to vote today on whether to become the first city in Canada to put a temporary pause on new data centres. The moratorium vote comes as local lawmakers across the country wrestle with the noise,…...
Data centre capacity could soar to 20 GW in planned projects: government document
2+ week, 1+ day ago (869+ words) OTTAWA — A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada’s AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada’s data centre capacity. But spokespeople for the government pushed back strongly on the…...
Top 10 Data Center Projects in the U.S. - July 2026
3+ week, 33+ min ago (138+ words) The top 10 pre-bid data center projects in the U.S., ranked by project value as of July 07, 2026. Click through on any project below for more project intelligence, or click these pages and search projects across using your own criteria. Site work and…...
40 mayors worldwide endorse a pact to shape data center development
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (932+ words) OTTAWA — Forty mayors from around the world have signed onto a pact announced Tuesday to try to shape how urban data centers are built and operated. It’s their vision for how urban data center development can be done sustainably — and…...
U.K. data centre in the heart of London offers a glimpse of the future
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (595+ words) New proposals for enormous data centres across the United States and Canada are announced almost weekly. Many will occupy sites several thousand acres in size, made possible due to the immense amount of rural land available in North America. Europe…...
Data centre construction excitement needs a dash of caution
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (849+ words) Many in the construction industry foresee the continued expansion of data centres as a key part of their growth projections for 2026 and beyond. However, could hyper-scale data centres be too much of a big thing? Factors are emerging that could…...
$15B Wisconsin AI data centre campus signals a new building era
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (777+ words) For decades, data centres were large, hidden, anonymous boxes on the edge of town, quietly powering email, banking and cloud services. However, AI has changed that calculus. Today, these AI-driven hyper-scale projects arrive not as single buildings but as entire…...