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The Government of Ontario released its Data Centre Playbook, laying out how the province plans to evaluate proposed data centre projects across three pillars, including one focused specifically on community confidence.​

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CORD's formal submission to the Environmental Registry of Ontario, responding directly to the province's Data Centre Playbook and outlining recommendations to strengthen community confidence and implementation support.​

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The federal government, alongside the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, released Canada's Responsible Data Centre Development Principles: five commitments covering local benefit, cost protection for ratepayers, water and environmental impact, transparency, and strategic value.

A new report from MaRS and Mantle Climate explores the various factors that could determine whether AI infrastructure growth could strengthen or strain the province's energy systems and communities.

On TVO Today: as Ottawa backs a $2B AI push with clean-energy data centres, Kathleen Kauth (Mantle Climate) and Mark Winfield (York University) separate fact from fiction on public opposition to data centres in Ontario. 

On BNN Bloomberg's The Open: Kathleen Kauth, COO at Mantle Climate, joins the discussion on how to overcome the backlash against AI, explaining what's actually changed about data centres, and what hasn't.

In The Globe and Mail, Kathleen Kauth (Mantle Climate) and Tyler Hamilton (MaRS) lay out recommendations for how Canada can build public trust in AI data centre development.

CBC News investigates how AI data centres' water use is being measured across Canada, and why getting a straight answer is harder than it sounds. Featuring perspectives from both municipal officials and residents in Nanaimo, B.C.

Canada's National Observer maps 15 proposed hyperscale data centre projects across Ontario, totalling over 2,000 megawatts of demand, and examines the information gap municipalities face when evaluating them.

An independent, non-partisan project mapping data centre developments across the province, built to give communities and municipalities a clearer picture of what's being proposed and where.