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By Jeremy Simes New data centres in Saskatchewan must be Canadian-owned and are also required to supply their own electricity, the province announced Thursday. The measures are part of a new framework that Saskatchewan’s government says ensures Canadian data is protected while also keeping utility services reliable. “We felt from the very, very beginning that it was important for Canadian companies to be the proponent companies for data and AI infrastructure,” Jeremy Harrison, the province’s Crown Investments Corporation minister, told reporters. “I think a lot of the reasons have been made even more apparent over the course of the last number of weeks. In the long-term, data and AI security is going to be as important for nation states as energy security is.” Applicants proposing to build data centres must
  • neutronbumblebee@mander.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Which would be fine if it was additional renewable power that was added to the grid and generated by those same corporations or a subsidiary. But how unlikely is that. Keeping the profits but making average people pay for your environmental damage, that’s just business as normal. Same issue as with government AI promises here.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    If Moe couldn’t be paid off with alcohol I would be all for them needing to put a CANDU reactor in and creating a uranium upgrading centre here in Saskatchewan, where a lot of the uranium is mined.