Battling Ottawa Liberals and Edmonton NDPers comes naturally to Danielle Smith – facing off with angry folk in rural Alberta could prove much more challenging for our premier.

The issue is data centres, those massive power plants required to supply the juice necessary for the much-ballyhooed AI revolution, one we’re assured, by those with skin in this particular game, will be such a blessed boon for all mankind.

However, these huge power-generating complexes, crammed full of servers, computers and storage drives, aren’t going to be built in downtown Calgary or Edmonton. It’s small towns and rural communities that will be future neighbours for those centres.

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We’re not talking about one or two of these developments, either. Heaven’s no. When did Alberta ever do anything by half? The province has a goal to attract $100 billion worth of such things in the next few years alone. Even in........

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