{"id":927708,"date":"2026-10-10T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927708\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:26:08","slug":"hydro-quebec-in-a-power-struggle-with-google-and-big-tech-as-data-centre-demand-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927708\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec in a power struggle with Google and big tech as data centre demand surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years after Google announced plans <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/business\/google-to-set-up-735-million-data-centre-in-beauharnois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">to build a $735-million hyperscale data centre in Beauharnois<\/a>, its 63-hectare site remains an empty field, with no construction date in sight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google maintains the project is moving forward. The City of Beauharnois says the building has been designed and municipal planning continues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the electricity to power the facility has yet to be approved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years after Google announced plans to build a $735-million hyperscale data centre in Beauharnois, its 63-hectare site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,101002,2338],"class_list":["post-927708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hydro-quebec","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927708","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=927708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}