Journalist links data centre push to gas plants and renewed interest in fracking
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Journalist and activist Nick Tsergas says Canadian governments see the building of hyperscale, AI data centres as key to the development of the natural gas industry.
“That’s what it means in Alberta where Premier Danielle Smith has said the whole point of the AI data centre build-out is to create demand for fossil fuels,” Tsergas said Saturday, Oct. 17 at a public meeting in Saint John about how to stop the push for data centres across Canada including the 10 now being proposed in New Brunswick.
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