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By Mark Lowey
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.

By Mark Lowey
Profile of Luke Stark, an early-career researcher at Western University whose research explores the history and contemporary effects of AI systems designed to interact with humans and digital technologies more broadly. Stark also offers some advice for early-career researchers.

By Mark Lowey
Fusion energy development is attracting more investment, achieving many technical milestones and getting closer to a commercial-scale affordable, clean power source, say analysts and industry representatives.

By Mark Lowey
More Canadian farmers and producers are adopting digital technologies but concerns about data privacy, sharing and ownership, who benefits from the data, and the returns on investment are hobbling faster adoption, researchers say.

By Mark Lowey
Utility companies and governments need to start building infrastructure now to meet the massive increase in electricity demand from the “green” energy transition – but Canada is short of skilled workers to do the job.

By Mark Lowey
Researchers and scholarly publishers need to be transparent and engaged with the public to prevent a flood of misinformation and fakery from undermining scientific integrity and trust in science, say academics and publishers.

By Mark Lowey
Jennifer Côté's journey as a startup founder with her Montreal-based company Opalia, which has developed cell-based technology to produce real milk and milk products without the cow.

By Mark Lowey
Canada is poised to lead the world in building the next generation of nuclear reactors providing permitting and regulatory approvals are more efficient and the country has a bold vision, industry experts say.

By Mark Lowey
Building new nuclear power reactors is folly and won’t help mitigate the climate crisis, say scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Stanford University.