EDMONTON — Electricity producer Capital Power Corp. says its recently retooled Genesee Generating Station positions the company well to seize data centre opportunities in Alberta.
The power plant southwest of Edmonton now runs entirely on natural gas instead of coal after a $1.6-billion multi-year project, allowing it to boost its capacity by around 60 per cent while cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent.
Alberta's technology minister has said the province hopes to see $100 billion worth of artificial intelligence data centres under construction in the next five years — massive operations that require an immense amount of electricity to run and cool off computer servers.
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