{"id":287190,"date":"2025-11-16T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287190\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:38:10","slug":"thinknl-urges-government-to-include-ai-in-churchill-falls-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287190\/","title":{"rendered":"ThinkNL Urges Government to Include AI in Churchill Falls Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/churchill-falls-govt.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"ThinkNL Urges Government to Include AI in Churchill Falls Review\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)<\/p>\n<p>A group known as ThinkNL is asking the provincial government to include AI and data center opportunities in an expanded review of the Churchill Falls MOU.<\/p>\n<p>The group has delivered a brief to Premier Tony Wakeham, which asks government to evaluate what they call \u201cvalue-added opportunities that clean power can unlock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Oliver of ThinkNL argues\u00a0that AI and data centers are growing fast,\u00a0are in need of clean and reliable power, and that\u00a0resources in Labrador have the \u201cpersonality\u201d they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>By that, he says he means access to hydro, water, a cold climate, and fiber, which Labrador has \u201cin spades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group is\u00a0asking, among other things,\u00a0for those industries to be included in the province\u2019s scenario analysis, and for a cross-sector roundtable to be established to \u201ctest assumptions and surface options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador) A group known as ThinkNL is asking the provincial government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-287190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}