Hydro Ottawa's CEO says the utility is under "extraordinary pressures" as energy-hungry data centres lead a historic surge in large-scale customers seeking to connect to the power grid.
Hydro Ottawa’s CEO says the utility is under “extraordinary pressures” as energy-hungry data centres lead a historic surge in large-scale customers seeking to connect to the power grid.
Bryce Conrad says he expects by the end of the year total grid connection requests from large-scale projects in Ottawa will exceed the average power use of the entire city’s homes and businesses.
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