National group still going ahead with Hamilton data centre proposal

The organization behind a data centre proposal for Hamilton's waterfront says its proposal to the federal government is still going ahead. The Digital Research Alliance of Canada is proposing to build, own and operate a "National AI Compute Facility" on former industrial land owned by Slate Asset Management. Slate recently applied to section off a portion of that land to begin development of a larger project but was denied after hundreds protested the potential data centre.