Rather than the current first-come, first-serve structure, the government says the new policy would prioritize natural resource and manufacturing projects, while artificial intelligence, data centres and hydrogen-for-export projects would have to bid for their power

The changes tabled by Energy Minister Adrian Dix would also make the current ban on cryptocurrency connections permanent

“The allocation framework allows for the paced growth of these sectors and avoids mistakes we’ve seen in other jurisdictions where growth has outpaced infrastructure, resulting in higher costs for everyday residential customers” Dix told reporters Monday.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ai-power-centres-9.6946054 ___

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      512·
      4 days ago

      Yes, much better for the environment to devote your energy to mines, sawmills and factories than to put it into data processing facilities.

      • HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        When you process data with that energy, you can have prompt specified porn with slightly less finglers than your furrent prompt specified porn.

        When you process mass with that energy, you have products that people can use and that can improve their lives.

        So, yes, actually? Did you think that datacenters did not burn a bunch of resources alongside that electricity, like clean water, and output a bunch of nastiness approximately continuously, leaving aside entirely the issue of the video cards that enter as structured mass and leave a year later as toxic ewaste? What is that data processing facility offering that we need and at the same time, lived without entirely, ten years ago?