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An environmental reckoning? Data centre rush hits hard realities

Assertions repeated often in the pro-data centre narrative wrongly hint that the build-out represents an environmentally responsible generator of Alberta wealth, many of the researchers, critics and other commenters dissecting the boom concur. In fact some say the province and the rest of the world are embarking on barely understood territory by striving to meet artificial intelligence’s appetite for water, power and, in Alberta’s case, natural gas. The hard truth is that nobody knows what exactly to expect on the environmental front, says Tricia Stadnyk, a University of Calgary professor who uses computer modelling to research the interplay of hydrology,…

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