Building new data centres in Canada will come with tradeoffs in benefits and negative impacts

Mark Lowey
May 14, 2025

Building new data centres in Canada can help safeguard data sovereignty and enable Canadian AI development, but the facilities consume huge amounts of power and water and emit greenhouse gases. Those are some of the tradeoffs that Canadians should consider in deciding how many data centres should be built, where they should be located where and how their impacts should be managed, experts say.

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