Mississauga city council is set to vote today on a one-year data centre moratorium.<\/p>\n
The city is the latest in Ontario to consider a pause as it studies what guardrails it could place on energy-intensive data centres fuelling the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n
The proposed citywide moratorium would apply to data centres with energy demands over 10 megawatts.<\/p>\n
It comes as Prologis, a major U.S.-headquartered firm, pursues a two-storey data centre in a business park in the city\u2019s northwest.<\/p>\n
Under pressure from local lawmakers, the province last month released a draft framework that pledged new data centres would cover all their electricity costs and could be charged more than other industrial users.<\/p>\n
Oakville last month became the first Ontario municipality to enact a pause after failed bids in Hamilton and Burlington.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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