An open house turned into a night of tense exchanges between Lorneville residents and Beacon AI Centres, a proponent of a data centre planned for the neighbourhood.
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Nipun Tiwari · CBC News
· Posted: Nov 06, 2026 7:32 AM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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The open house Thursday night was required by the province’s Energy and Utilities Board and the environmental impact assessment process. (Nipun Tiwari/CBC)
Tempers flared and frustration mounted at an overflowing open house Thursday night that became a contentious exchange between residents of a west Saint John community and proponents of a hyperscale data centre proposed for the area.
“I think it demonstrates that there is no social licence for this project,” Lorneville resident Adam Wilkins said to reporters after the meeting.
“No AI data centres” was the theme of the evening. The words appeared on picket signs held by some of the roughly 200 people in the room — there were many more outside — and are on nearly every lawn in the neighbourhood.
“There is no amount of community benefits that will justify the pollution and harm to our health and well-being,” said Wilkins,
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