{"id":158,"date":"2026-08-23T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:04:31","slug":"data-centres-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Data Centres in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today CBC has posted a news story on Data centres.  In Ontario 88% either oppose or are unsure about AI data centres. The reasons are clear; health, water and electricity needs of these data centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June Prime Minister Carney announced $2 Billion in spending on his &#8220;AI for All&#8221; initiative.  The question in my mind is, do we all really want AI?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be clear data centres are not the same as &#8220;cloud facilities&#8221; that use just a few megawatts of power, the new AI data centres <strong>use hundreds of Megawatts of power<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quote from CBC article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;In Ontario,\u00a0Oakville\u00a0voted in August to impose a one-year moratorium on data centre construction, while\u00a0Mississauga\u00a0is set to vote in September on a similar moratorium.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested in learning more about data centres?  CBC does a fair job of reporting on the issue. The link to the CBC article is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/climate\/data-centres-ask-faq-9.7316098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel strongly that we need to get ahead on data centres and impose a moratorium.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today CBC has posted a news story on Data centres. In Ontario 88% either oppose or are unsure about AI data centres. The reasons are clear; health, water and electricity needs of these data centres. In June Prime Minister Carney announced $2 Billion in spending on his &#8220;AI for All&#8221; initiative. The question in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}