By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News More than 100 people gathered outside the Legislative Assembly building in Edmonton to protest the provincial and federal governments’ permissive approach towards building AI data centres Oct 4. Elder Taz Bouchier opened the rally with a land acknowledgement before tying the proposed 7.5-gigawatt Wonder Valley data centre near Grande Prairie’s potential water usage to the oil industry’s plans to release treated tailings fluids into the Athabasca watershed. “When did people lose sight of how valuable water is to living? When money came into play. That’s all these data centers are about,” said Bouchier. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is challenging the province’s decision to award a water license of 24-million cubic metres to the Municipal District of Greenview for Wonder Valley…
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