Feds need legislative, regulatory ‘guardrails’ for AI data centres, says presumptive Green leader Morrice

Experts are calling for the government to introduce a national, enforceable framework to guide data centre development in Canada, and to make federal funding to build or expand centres conditional.
AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon, centre, at an Aug. 25 announcement in Ottawa alongside Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, left, and Industry Minister Mélanie Joly.

Increasingly unpopular south of the border, artificial intelligence data centres have generated mixed reactions among Canadians, and the presumptive next leader of the Green Party Mike Morrice says there should be a "moratorium" on building them until "strong" regulatory gua...

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