Alberta’s technology minister has been directed to push forward with attracting data centres and pursuing digital innovation as part of the province’s strategy to boost new investment and revenue.

“My goal is over the next five years to try and attract $100 billion worth of investments into data centres,” Nate Glubish, Alberta’s technology and innovation minister, said in an interview with CBC News.

“That would mean hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental tax revenue … which means more money for schools, hospitals and public services that the province cares about.”

That goal was reinforced by the mandate letter he received Oct. 16 from Premier Danielle Smith.

A hot ticket item on that letter was the Artificial Intelligence Data Centres Strategy , which some exper

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