Canada’s AI Race or Land Grab | Winnipeg News

Winnipieg News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 15, 2026 · 2m

Canada’s AI race is turning into a wild land grab, with proposals for data centers demanding more power than all Canadian homes combined—far outpacing federal projections. Most are flooding Alberta, lured by cheap energy and open doors for U.S. investors. But this frenzy ignores Canada’s real needs: affordable, sovereign computing for local researchers and businesses, not just chasing U.S. tech dominance. The real vision? Publicly owned infrastructure like Telus and Bell’s projects, plus a proposed SCIP supercomputer for universities and hospitals, designed to serve the public good, not…