Ontario's premier was in Guelph at a provincial data centre to announce the province’s framework for its Data Centre Playbook, which is open for public comment for 30 days.
Ontario is facing extreme 30c/kwh electricity rates starting in 2027, due to nuclear refurbishments, but most of it is paid for with taxpayer debt. OPG, generally gets to charge rate payers for network expansion, so ensuring all those costs are paid by datacenter would be minimum.
It’s unclear if this would raise or lower rates for rate/tax payers. Rates are extreme due to less than full capacity utilization, and the other condition for datacenters would be that they pay the full unsubsizized rate (30c/kwh) and get cut off during scarcity events.
wth, is the connection to Trump? He will raise tarriffs more if Ford refuses?
Ontario is facing extreme 30c/kwh electricity rates starting in 2027, due to nuclear refurbishments, but most of it is paid for with taxpayer debt. OPG, generally gets to charge rate payers for network expansion, so ensuring all those costs are paid by datacenter would be minimum.
It’s unclear if this would raise or lower rates for rate/tax payers. Rates are extreme due to less than full capacity utilization, and the other condition for datacenters would be that they pay the full unsubsizized rate (30c/kwh) and get cut off during scarcity events.
wth, is the connection to Trump? He will raise tarriffs more if Ford refuses?