Canada

Google paid for an Oregon city’s lawsuit against a local newspaper that was seeking water consumption figures for a data centre. The suit was eventually dropped, and the figures revealed the Google data centre accounted for a quarter of the city’s water use in 2021.

There's been a lot of talks for government investment into AI for Canada in the recent boom, but I've never seen anyone make a compelling argument what the practical implementation of it would be.

Generally people are only talk about building AI Datacenters in Canada and they've been known to be extremely large user of fresh water and energy. Which has directly impacted people cost of living with much higher utility costs being passed on them only for some short term construction jobs, moderate tax gains and the handful of jobs a data center employs.

And as usual you know it's bad stuff with Alberta/Danielle Smith leading the way and well known grifter getting involved.

Alberta doubling down on AI data centres with new mandate for utilities minister

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-alberta-ai-data-centres-minister-mandate/

The province’s goal is to have $100-billion worth of AI data centres under construction within the next five years.

Why celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary is proposing a massive AI data centre in northern Alberta

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/why-celebrity-investor-kevin-o-leary-is-proposing-a-massive-ai-data-centre-in-northern-alberta-1.7407506