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Rachel Pettigrew


AI is transforming Canada’s infrastructure development—and not for the better

Under-resourced municipal governments have been largely left to fend for themselves as they try to regulate the build-out of massively energy-intensive data centre facilities.

opinion | BY SIMON ENOCH, RACHEL PETTIGREW | October 7, 2026