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Government planning 'hyperscale' $1.5B data centre for National Capital Region

Ottawa Citizen · October 15, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The federal government is in the early planning stages of a project to design and build a large data centre somewhere in the National Capital Region amid "unprecedented" demand on the power grid.

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Government planning 'hyperscale' $1.5B data centre for National Capital Region

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