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Mississauga, Ont., council set to vote on temporary data centre moratorium
Mississauga City Council is set to vote on a one-year moratorium on data centres with energy demands over 10 megawatts to study possible regulations due to the AI boom's energy use.
Prologis, a U.S.-based company, is planning to build a two-storey data centre in Mississauga's northwest business park amid the debate.
Ontario's provincial government introduced a draft framework requiring new data centres to cover their electricity costs and potentially pay more than other industrial users after local pressure.
The moratorium proposal follows similar pauses in other Ontario municipalities, including Oakville, Hamilton, and Burlington.