How an AI data centre may be the big, energy-thirsty fish that got away from Manitoba

How an AI data centre may be the big, energy-thirsty fish that got away from Manitoba

Given the friendly rivalry between Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the announcement of a $1.7-billion Bell Canada data centre near Regina is worth noting.

There was a time when Manitobans used to consider Saskatchewan a rural, underdeveloped backwater. This characterization is out of date. Over the past two decades, horizontal drilling turned our ne… [+5236 chars]