{"id":233783,"date":"2026-06-18T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/premier-says-ai-data-centres-not-a-today-thing-in-n-s\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:55:18","slug":"premier-says-ai-data-centres-not-a-today-thing-in-n-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/premier-says-ai-data-centres-not-a-today-thing-in-n-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier says AI data centres &#8216;not a today thing&#8217; in N.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/artificial-intelligence-centres-nova-scotia-9.7240491\">Premier says AI data centres &#8216;not a today thing&#8217; in N.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/artificial-intelligence-centres-nova-scotia-9.7240491\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/artificial-intelligence-centres-nova-scotia-9.7240491<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-18 16:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbc.ca\">www.cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Premier Tim Houston declared that Nova Scotia is not actively considering the establishment of AI-based data centers due to insufficient current energy availability.<\/li>\n<li>Houston emphasized the importance of ensuring the energy supply does not risk the province&#8217;s grid or residents&#8217; health.<\/li>\n<li>Canada has five hyperscale data centers and 96 others over 100 megawatts either proposed or under construction, according to a York University study.<\/li>\n<li>Many of these data center projects have faced significant protests concerning their environmental and health impacts.<\/li>\n<li>While some Canadian provinces like Alberta are open to the idea of data centers, others, such as Manitoba, have recently rejected proposals.<\/li>\n<li>Nova Scotia&#8217;s potential for data centers may only be explored after the province fully harnesses its energy potential, particularly through the ambitious offshore wind plan, Wind West.<\/li>\n<li>Houston noted that while the global use of data is indeed increasing, any discussion about data centers in Nova Scotia is far in the future and contingent upon a safe and beneficial evaluation for the province.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier says AI data centres &#8216;not a today thing&#8217; in N.S. https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/artificial-intelligence-centres-nova-scotia-9.7240491 Publish Date: 2026-06-18&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/64360e72-1673-477c-a7ae-7eb1423bd1e7,1781807110487\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233783","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\/233783"}],"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=233783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233785,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233783\/revisions\/233785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}