Katlo Tech CEO attempts to offer assurances over proposed data centre

By Kody Ferron, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Yellowknifer We’re protesting the wrong data centres, and we’ve been living next to the right ones for decades, says one of the proponents of a proposed data centre on the K’atl’odeeche First Nation. Amid concern, and even anger, towards the idea of a hyper-scale AI data centre being built in the NWT, Lyle Fabian, CEO of Yellowknife-based tech company Katlo Tech, assured that no one is proposing to build such a massive facility, at least not yet. He said there’s a lot of misunderstanding and confusion around what a data centre is, and what it could mean for the territory. “What we’re building is a traditional data centre, which people have been living near and by for the past four decades,” said Fabian….

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