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By Lisa Johnson Alberta’s technology minister was jeered, badgered and booed late Wednesday by a room packed with hundreds of people over the province’s plans for an artificial intelligence data centre. Nate Glubish was in the central town of Lacombe for the first in a series of town halls touting the windfall the mega-facilities could bring. Dozens of people lined up to ask questions, but none who made it to the microphone before the event ended offered an endorsement. There was also little trust in the Alberta government to regulate an industry poised to invest billions of dollars in the province to feed a growing global computing demand. “Albertans do not want data centres,” said one man who came from the neighbouring town of Ponoka. Another woman told Glubish to… <\/p>\n

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By Lisa Johnson Alberta’s technology minister was jeered, badgered and booed late Wednesday by a room packed with hundreds of people over the province’s plans for an artificial intelligence data centre. Nate Glubish was in the central town of Lacombe for the first in a series of town halls touting the windfall the mega-facilities could bring. Dozens of people lined up to ask questions, but none who made it to the microphone before the event ended offered an endorsement. There was also little trust in the Alberta government to regulate an industry poised to invest billions of dollars in the province to feed a growing global computing demand. “Albertans do not want data centres,” said one man who came from the neighbouring town of Ponoka. Another woman told Glubish to... <\/p>\n

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