hydro quebec has low rates for most industrial customers but doubled them for data centres because they're so intensive with limited economic contribution and the grid is at capacity with low reservoir levels due to drought in northern quebec making generation sketchy
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Quebec's hydro utility is seeking to significantly raise electricity prices for data centres and cryptocurrency operations.
Canada currently has 1.6 gigawatts of data centre capacity, but the projects in the pipeline would balloon that number to 13.2 gigawatts.
Most of those projects are slated for Alberta, where they’d be powered by natural gas — meaning a lot more emissions.
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