From Global News.

Minister of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon will make an important announcement in support of Canadian artificial intelligence infrastructure on Monday in Vancouver.

The announcement is expected to express support for sovereign large-scale data centres in Canada.

This comes as Canada is “closely monitoring” a new warning about the strain on North American electricity grids driven by artificial intelligence data centres, Natural Resources Canada said.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) – an electricity watchdog for Canada, the U.S. and Mexico – issued an alert warning this week that data centres are causing strain on North America’s electricity grids.

NERC issued a Level 3 alert, which is the agency’s highest alert rating, on Monday, warning that electricity grids “did not have sufficient processes, procedures, or methods to address risks associated with computational loads.”

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