ACross canada, people are protesting planned
AI DATA CENTRES
Opposition has taken to the streets in Hamilton, Vancouver, Regina and Saint John as governments pour money into AI infrastructure.
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In Canada, many proposed data centres are fuelled by fracked gas, water consumption remains a concern, and the climate impacts of just a few of these projects could be equivalent to adding millions of gas-burning cars to the road.
The federal government has allocated billions to support the rapid expansion of data centres, including $700 million in direct investment. Alberta has announced a plan to attract $100 billion in data centre investment.
These data centres have the potential to shape our landscape for generations. Add your name now and join the Council in pushing back against the flood of AI data centres that threaten our environment, our work, and our health.
Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry:
Intersectional and Intergenerational Organizing and What’s Forming
On Friday May 22, they gathered—researchers, labour organizers, environmental groups, Indigenous leaders, tech workers, grassroots activists opposing data centres; about 270 individuals all together. The occasion was the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry, convened by the Council of Canadians to confront the unprecedented convergence of money, political power and technological awe that a handful of techno-oligarchs control.
Learn more
- Getting into Fights with Data Centres: Podcast— As a wave of new data centres threatens to reshape the Canadian landscape, explore a timely conversation with Dr. Anne Pasek. The Trent University professor’s work challenges common assumptions about the carbon footprint of the internet, and she is the author of the widely shared zine Getting Into Fights With Data Centers. Pasek draws our attention to the infrastructure that makes AI, but also much of the online infrastructure we use day to day, and its impacts on climate and water.
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