I am baffled why Canada don't have massive data centres yet? It is cold with abundant water and energy. Why not?

Alberta has energy. Canada wants energy without Alberta. The Candu reactor program is so defunct that the feds have been trying to sell it for about a decade. Candu makes plutonium and was responsible for a lot of nuclear weapons proliferation in the 1980s, but again, Candu isn't Alberta. Also it's a way to spend an enormous amount of money, and Canada isn't quite bankrupt yet. I say go for it.

From what I've seen out of Canada, this is likely overly optimistic and probably will not be possible in that time frame.

I think it's better to just outsource it to Koreans at least that way you can stay on budget and on time.

So we're willing to put our greatest national asset (the environment) at risk in the name of "moar power". Well that's just great.

I hope Jimmy Carter's ghost will be just as willing to help us out the next time a reactor goes into meltdown as his physical self was the first time that happened. RIP Jimmy Carter.

The Ontario government is terrible at creating a structure which is capable of finishing any infrastructure project on time ...(see Eglinton Crosstown) and mostly seems to work as a funnel for moving public funds through public-private-partnerships to feed contractor/consultant income for projects that grow to many multiples of their time and budget.

So, yeah, it makes sense that they love nuclear now -- blank cheque to drag on for multidecades over budget. Likely the right people donated the right funds to the PC party and/or attended/funded Ford Fest

The first thing this government did when it got into power was pay out hundreds of millions in penalties for cancelling large wind projects, and for breaching its contract and exiting the cap and trade agreement with California and Quebec.

Ford loves to waste money and then wag his finger about how everyone else is fiscally irresponsible.

That’s great news ! Have they also solved the nuclear waste problem?

Honest question; here in the USA we have not.

Im surprised they haven't doubled down on deep drill geothermal.

Totally unnecessary : I did the Math to cross-verify - Elon Musk is 100 % right !

Just ONE square mile of batteries and a TOTAL of 100 x 100 square miles of Solar can power the entire USA 24/7. Area required will be much lesser for Canada.

See : https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/elon-musk-...

I wonder if anyone will tell them that's an oxymoron.

But what do they do with the waste? And how much fresh water is that going to use?