Who is minding the water data centres will use?
By Maude Barlow, Blue Community co-founder
Mark Carney has a plan to turn Canada into the “world’s leading energy superpower,” which includes a national energy corridor and electricity grid, a dramatic increase in LNG exports and massive investment in critical minerals and AI data centres.
All of these need a great deal of freshwater, which, in a world rapidly running out, gives Canada a competitive advantage. But do we have water to spare? Is anyone looking at the impact on Canada’s water supplies of the major transformation we are entering into?