A recent Nanaimo press conference saw the leader of BC’s Green Party joined by a community advocate Kathryn Barnwell, and Nanaimo City Councillors Paul Manly and Hilary Eastmure in a call for more stringent regulation of the data centre industry provincially and federally.
Midcoast Morning speaks with Martin Karsten, a University of Waterloo computer science professor, to walk through some questions around how data centres work, and to get his take on some of the factors at play in Nanaimo’s situation.
Podcast Photo: Data Centre Servers with Terminal (Brett Sayles/Pexels)