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Northern data center corridor

The northern data center corridor: stranded power, cold water, and fiber instead of transmission lines

The idea, in 15 seconds

Cold climate = free cooling for AI data centers. ❄ north, cold ⚡ hydro + nuclear ▢ data center Canada's ask: fiber & grid Hyperscalers fund the build Real named candidate sites, checked against actual grid capacity.

Why Canada, specifically

The target: population-share as the floor, structural advantage as the stretch

Harder to tariff than a good crossing a border

A real candidate site, already on this plan

A national opportunity, not a Quebec-Labrador-only one

Real precedent, today

Why fiber, not transmission lines

The latency question, answered plainly

What this could be worth

TierBasis

What this means for northern and Inuit communities

The ancillary sectors this pulls in behind it

What about a large chip fab?

Would a Canadian CHIPS Act actually work?

Risks