Alberta’s technology minister is set to hear from residents in the central region tonight on what they think of artificial intelligence data centres.
Nate Glubish is scheduled to be in Lacombe for the first in a series of town halls.
Glubish has spent years crafting an AI strategy and wooing investors to build enormous computing complexes — and the large power supplies they require — in the province.
But data centre development has been met with fierce pushback from some residents concerned about water use, pollution and the potential impact on electricity bills.
Some opponents say the government’s consultations, because they came after major…
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