Alberta could face a province-wide shortage of approximately 5,200 construction and skilled trades workers if 80% of its planned AI data centre capacity is built over the next decade, according to new research from the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC). Commissioned by the Province of Alberta, the study examines the workforce needed to deliver proposed … [Read more...] about Alberta’s AI Data Centre Ambitions Could Face 5,200-Worker Shortfall
Jensen Huang Says AI Is Becoming a Global Infrastructure Layer
Artificial intelligence is becoming a new infrastructure layer comparable to electricity and the internet, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the Dreamforce audience in San Francisco this week. Appearing alongside Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Huang framed the current wave of AI development as the beginning of a new industrial revolution—one that will turn companies and countries … [Read more...] about Jensen Huang Says AI Is Becoming a Global Infrastructure Layer
Building an AI-Ready Canada with Schneider Electric
Canada wants to be an AI leader. Whether it can achieve that ambition may depend as much on substations, cooling systems and grid connections as it does on algorithms, computing power and talent. The rapid growth of AI is forcing data centre operators and enterprises to rethink how they plan for power, cooling, resiliency and future capacity. Infrastructure that was once … [Read more...] about Building an AI-Ready Canada with Schneider Electric
Beyond Backup: Why AI Data Centres Need Flexible Energy Storage
Artificial intelligence is pushing data centre power demand beyond a question of how much electricity can be generated. Increasingly, the challenge is delivering that electricity where and when it is needed while accommodating enormous loads that can fluctuate from one minute to the next. For operators that cannot compromise on uptime—and are under growing pressure to reduce … [Read more...] about Beyond Backup: Why AI Data Centres Need Flexible Energy Storage
LōD Is Turning AI Inference Into a Flexible Grid Resource
The AI infrastructure boom is colliding with a stubborn physical constraint: electricity. While data centre developers are searching for enough power to support the next wave of computing, Vancouver-based LōD Technologies is approaching the challenge from another direction—by making the compute itself responsive to the grid. LōD connects electricity-grid and market signals … [Read more...] about LōD Is Turning AI Inference Into a Flexible Grid Resource