{"id":945740,"date":"2026-10-25T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945740\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:30:10","slug":"cape-breton-petitions-against-ns-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945740\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Breton Petitions Against NS Data Centre"},"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\/2026\/10\/ai-data-centre-open-ai-openai-artificial-intellegence.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Cape Breton Petitions Against NS Data Centre\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A data centre used to power OpenAI (OpenAI)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a petition making the rounds against a data centre planned for Cape Breton by a company which, most recently, was aiming for a wind-to-hydrogen project on the Burin Peninsula. But it is now embroiled in a dispute with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador over millions of dollars in land fees. <\/p>\n<p>EverWind Fuels says it never signed a contract to pay the government Crown land fees, but Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott says collection efforts are ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>The company has its sight set on establishing a $10-billion data centre around Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, but Michael McCluskey of Dartmouth is driving a petition against it. <\/p>\n<p>The jury is still out on whether such centres are a blessing or a curse. <\/p>\n<p>In central Newfoundland, a company a decade ago was toying with establishing a data centre in Grand Falls-Windsor, but that went nowhere, partly because of concerns about the availability and cost of electricity. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mike Browne says there has been no further talk in that regard. <\/p>\n<p> The company in question was looking to access 2MW of power at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A data centre used to power OpenAI (OpenAI) There\u2019s a petition making the rounds against a data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-945740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945740","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=945740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}