{"id":238387,"date":"2026-06-28T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/hundreds-protested-against-proposed-ai-data-centres-in-vancouver\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:35:22","slug":"hundreds-protested-against-proposed-ai-data-centres-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/hundreds-protested-against-proposed-ai-data-centres-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds protested against proposed AI data centres in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/hundreds-protested-ai-data-centres-vancouver-petition-signatures\/\">Hundreds protested against proposed AI data centres in Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/hundreds-protested-ai-data-centres-vancouver-petition-signatures\/\">https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/hundreds-protested-ai-data-centres-vancouver-petition-signatures\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-28 17:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"vancouver.citynews.ca\">vancouver.citynews.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Hundreds of protesters gathered near the Vancouver Art Gallery to oppose the planned AI data centres proposed by Telus in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This was the second protest in a month, following a demonstration in late May. Vancouver-based Telus and the Canadian government plan to build three data centres, two near Vancouver and one near Kamloops.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Protesters voiced concerns regarding environmental impacts, including pollution, water usage, energy needs, and potential strain on resources already facing water restrictions and energy shortages.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>BC Green leader Emily O&#8217;Bonnar expressed that AI needs regulation due to concerns about environmental risks and the province\u2019s reliance on coal-fired electricity from the US amidst droughts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Grace Barrett initiated an online petition against the construction, which has garnered over 15,000 signatures, highlighting water usage concerns and lack of communication about the project.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Meanwhile, B.C. Premier David Eby defended the proposal, citing BC Hydro&#8217;s low energy costs and clean output as advantages.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds protested against proposed AI data centres in Vancouver https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/hundreds-protested-ai-data-centres-vancouver-petition-signatures\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-28 17:49:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/9\/2026\/06\/28\/AI-7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238387","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\/238387"}],"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=238387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238389,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238387\/revisions\/238389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}