AI data centres: Can Saskatchewan have its cake and eat it too?

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As Saskatchewan announces more and bigger AI data centres, should communities have to choose between welcoming development and opposing it? Dr. Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, Assistant Professor of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University, joins Evan to discuss his recent article arguing that it doesn't need to be simply "to data centre or not to data centre". There is a third option where these centres benefit the communities that house them.
22 Oct 12PM English Canada News Commentary

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