Opinion: Why Alberta’s AI ambitions depend on people, not just power |
Alberta is making a serious bet on AI infrastructure, but the risk is that infrastructure is the only thing we build.
Over the past year, Alberta has moved aggressively to position itself as an AI infrastructure powerhouse, with up to $100 billion in data centre investment, and a federal-provincial MOU that ties increased oil and gas production and new electricity generation to powering AI data centres.
The question is what we plan to build on top of all that concrete, steel and megawatt capacity.
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