Dix said bids will be assessed on criteria, including data sovereignty, environmental benefits, First Nations participation and price, to ensure “power is directed to industries that provide the greatest benefit.”
Seems to me that any big data centre should have to be invested in local power infrastructure projects themselves. Otherwise they’ll drive up prices for individuals and then abandon BC Hydro (read: BC taxpayers) with the costs once they’ve extracted what they can.
Then the local power grid becomes reliant on them and the threat of them leaving it gives them way too many handouts.
If they left then the consumption they were on the hook for would no longer be needed? Its a non-issue.
The infrastructure to support it would still be there.
