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BC Hydro Plans 100 MW Battery Storage Facility Near Vancouver Island Terminal Substation
The new grid-scale battery project is the first utility-scale storage investment under BC Hydro’s Powering Growth plan.
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Cryogenic Quantum Infrastructure Needs US Support for Installation and Maintenance
Zero Point Cryogenics opened a Chicago service hub to support its expanding North American market.
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AI Compute Demand Forces Canadian Bond Market to Raise $84 Billion
Increased demand for AI infrastructure is driving significant capital raises in the Canadian bond market, impacting financing availability.
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Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting: PolArctic’s Reliance on Mila AI Talent Limits Independent Scaling
The partnership gives the Halifax firm access to Mila's researchers and recruitment pipeline, but its operational independence remains a key constraint.
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LōD Technologies Pilots Grid-Responsive AI Workloads with Dominion Energy
The Vancouver-based firm will test its energy intelligence platform within the PJM electricity market, a region hosting North America’s largest concentration of data centers.
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Why Oak Lab's Experiential RL Approach
Richard Sutton, a Turing Award winner and widely recognized as the godfather of reinforcement learning (RL), is launching Oak Lab to address one of AI's most pressing bottlenecks: the unsustainable energy and...
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Why Richard Sutton’s Oak Lab Could Reduce AI Compute Costs
Richard Sutton, a Turing Award-winning pioneer who literally wrote the textbook on reinforcement learning (RL), is launching Oak Lab to challenge the current deep learning paradigm. Instead of relying on massi...
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Why Bell's 13-MW TRU Data Centre Build
The construction of two 13-megawatt data centres at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) represents a tangible shift from theoretical AI policy to physical infrastructure. For Canadian institutions, this means the...
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