# Canada's AI minister to make announcement amid scrutiny and debate over data centres | LIVE

https://mins.news/en/video/61098

- Global News, 2026-09-16 14:09 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o2xJtom3vk

> Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon is set to make an announcement Wednesday morning with Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio and German Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Karsten Wildberger. Ontario’s AI boom has put municipalities at the centre of debate over regulating a new wave of large, energy-intensive data centres, with several voting on the issue in recent months.

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