There’s a petition making the rounds against a data centre planned for Cape Breton by a company which, most recently, was aiming for a wind-to-hydrogen project on the Burin Peninsula. But it is now embroiled in a dispute with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador over millions of dollars in land fees.
EverWind Fuels says it never signed a contract to pay the government Crown land fees, but Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott says collection efforts are ongoing.
The company has its sight set on establishing a $10-billion data centre around Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, but Michael McCluskey of Dartmouth is driving a petition against it.
The jury is still out on whether such centres are a blessing or a curse.
In central Newfoundland, a company a decade ago was toying with establishing a data centre in Grand Falls-Windsor, but that went nowhere, partly because of concerns about the availability and cost of electricity.
Mayor Mike Browne says there has been no further talk in that regard.
The company in question was looking to access 2MW of power at the time.
