Manitoba Halts AI Data Centre Plans

Manitoba’s Premier Wab Kinew has scrapped plans for a massive AI data centre near Winnipeg, calling it a bad investment for the province’s economy and environment. The project, backed by Jet.AI and Consensus Core, would have burned natural gas and sparked backlash over pollution and noise. Kinew argued the short-term jobs wouldn’t offset long-term losses, as profits would mostly leave Manitoba. Local residents celebrated the decision, praising the government for listening. While Manitoba won’t ban all data centres, it’ll focus on smaller, locally useful ones — like storing health records — instead of chasing big cloud providers. Kinew warned the AI data centre boom might be another tech bubble, predicting future AI could run right on your phone, making giant centres obsolete. Support the show:Get a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/84450134dcfad4fe