British Columbia

1950 readers

52 users here now

!britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

News, highlights and more relating to this great province!

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

TruckBC@lemmy.ca

LimpRimble@lemmy.ca

AI, data centre companies will have to compete for electricity in B.C. (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 4 days ago by LimpRimble@lemmy.ca to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Dix said bids will be assessed on criteria, including data sovereignty, environmental benefits, First Nations participation and price, to ensure “power is directed to industries that provide the greatest benefit.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems to me that any big data centre should have to be invested in local power infrastructure projects themselves. Otherwise they’ll drive up prices for individuals and then abandon BC Hydro (read: BC taxpayers) with the costs once they’ve extracted what they can.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Then the local power grid becomes reliant on them and the threat of them leaving it gives them way too many handouts.

[–] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they left then the consumption they were on the hook for would no longer be needed? Its a non-issue.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

The infrastructure to support it would still be there.