One of the world's biggest artificial intelligence companies is knocking on Canada's door, potentially armed with an offer that — under normal circumstances — would be hard to refuse.

OpenAI is building a global network of data centres to store the massive amounts of information collected by its services, including ChatGPT — and Canada's cheap energy could help with that.

The company believes AI and its associated infrastructure will be the base of future economic development, and it says it wants to help spread what it calls "democratic AI." It recently launched " OpenAI for countries " to pounce on the opportunity.

Meanwhile, Canada, wary of an increasingly protectionist U.S. government and the powerful American tech companies subject to its laws, is trying to distance itself from f

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