Oct 2, 2026 · 38 min · 14 segments
Send us a note! On September 16, Mississauga passed an interim control by-law pausing approval on all data centres with a peak power draw of over…
Eric WickhamHost
Paris MarksGuestAshleyGuestMartin ReidGuest
Rahul MehtaGuestKristenGuestDoryGuestAnti-Data Centre ActivistGuestAnti-Data Centre ActivistGuest
In late 2025, an American company, Prologis, filed an application to build a 35-megawatt co-location data center in North Mississauga on Tenth Line, just south of the 401.
They are warehouses full of computers that store personal data from the internet and are integral for the internet and artificial intelligence to function.
A co-location data center is one where the owner rents out the space to other companies.
But lately, they're getting much bigger, their impact is getting much more noticeable, and as a result, the backlash to these facilities is growing.
or somewhere else.
Oakville has become the first municipality in the province to impose a moratorium on building new data centers.
May I?
Hamilton City Council is expected to vote on the one-year moratorium.
And Hamilton City Council has rejected a motion that called for a one-year moratorium on data
centers.
Here in the outskirts of Mississauga, this land behind me is the latest site of a proposed AI data center.
But as Ontario municipalities receive more of these applications, officials are struggling to keep up.
Now, as you know, Canada is in a bit of a dispute with its largest trading partner, the United States.
This may be part of the reason that the provincial and federal governments seem to be all in on data center investment.
Getting Canadian data out of America and on Canadian soil is part of the reason to build data centers.
In late 2025, an American company, Prologis, filed an application to build a 35-megawatt co-location data center in North Mississauga on Tenth Line, just south of the 401.
They are warehouses full of computers that store personal data from the internet and are integral for the internet and artificial intelligence to function.
A co-location data center is one where the owner rents out the space to other companies.
But lately, they're getting much bigger, their impact is getting much more noticeable, and as a result, the backlash to these facilities is growing.
or somewhere else.
Oakville has become the first municipality in the province to impose a moratorium on building new data centers.
May I?
Hamilton City Council is expected to vote on the one-year moratorium.
And Hamilton City Council has rejected a motion that called for a one-year moratorium on data
centers.
Here in the outskirts of Mississauga, this land behind me is the latest site of a proposed AI data center.
But as Ontario municipalities receive more of these applications, officials are struggling to keep up.
Now, as you know, Canada is in a bit of a dispute with its largest trading partner, the United States.
This may be part of the reason that the provincial and federal governments seem to be all in on data center investment.
Getting Canadian data out of America and on Canadian soil is part of the reason to build data centers.
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