Data centres and economic development: Alberta's challenge
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There is an excellent long form article in the Globe & Mail today about Alberta’s attempts to attract data centres. There are a couple of important points to be made here for economic development. I was a fan (and still am) of data centre development in cases where the jurisdiction has surplus available electricity and doesn’t have a great business case for other uses for that power. In other words, if you could use that energy to bring higher value economic activity than data centres, in the end the focus should be on best impact.
Data centres and economic development: Alberta's challenge
Data centres and economic development…
Data centres and economic development: Alberta's challenge
There is an excellent long form article in the Globe & Mail today about Alberta’s attempts to attract data centres. There are a couple of important points to be made here for economic development. I was a fan (and still am) of data centre development in cases where the jurisdiction has surplus available electricity and doesn’t have a great business case for other uses for that power. In other words, if you could use that energy to bring higher value economic activity than data centres, in the end the focus should be on best impact.