{"id":233410,"date":"2026-06-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/developer-withdraws-plans-to-build-northern-ontario-ai-data-centre-over-public-opposition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:10:17","slug":"developer-withdraws-plans-to-build-northern-ontario-ai-data-centre-over-public-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/developer-withdraws-plans-to-build-northern-ontario-ai-data-centre-over-public-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer withdraws plans to build northern Ontario AI data centre over public opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/ai-data-centre-withdrawn-armour-township-9.7239102\">Developer withdraws plans to build northern Ontario AI data centre over public opposition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/ai-data-centre-withdrawn-armour-township-9.7239102\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/ai-data-centre-withdrawn-armour-township-9.7239102<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-18 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbc.ca\">www.cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developer Almaguin Data has withdrawn plans to build a two-megawatt AI data centre in Armour Township, Ontario, due to public opposition.<\/li>\n<li>Public opposition was primarily centered around environmental concerns, including the facility&#8217;s potential water usage.<\/li>\n<li>The company stated it would have invested between $15 and $20 million to expand the facility over five years, potentially creating 10-12 jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns raised by local resident Jordan Gorlick and others include the long-term environmental impacts of water usage related to data centre operations.<\/li>\n<li>Current plans indicate that there are 96 hyperscale data centres in development in Canada, with growing community opposition to this technological expansion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer withdraws plans to build northern Ontario AI data centre over public opposition https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/ai-data-centre-withdrawn-armour-township-9.7239102 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/c6934d51-12ca-4766-8565-181609966334,1781466654387\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C205%2C4268%2C2400%29%3BResize%3D620","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233412,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233410\/revisions\/233412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}