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Proponents of a data centre for the Spruce Lake Industrial Park held an open house to answer questions about the project. The co-founders of the two companies, VoltaGrid and Beacon AI Centres, instead were faced with a crowd of residents challenging them on the impacts of the project.
Residents came with questions, asked for commitments from companies
Nipun Tiwari · CBC News
· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 7:23 AM EST | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago
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Nathan Ough and Joseph Shovlin, (pictured on the right, with Ough closer) VoltaGrid and Beacon AI’s respective co-founders, held an information session Wednesday night, intending an informal open house but were instead questioned by community members. (Nipun Tiwari/CBC)
Residents of a rural Saint John community grilled two company co-founders proposing a data centre for a recently expanded industrial park near their neighbourhood.
The proposal comes from Calgary-based Beacon AI Centers and Volta Grid, based in Texas, who plan to build the data centre on a 120-hectare parcel in the Spruce Lake Industrial Park, approved for expansion in July despite significant pushback from the community.
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Data centres are facilities with massive computer servers that store and process vast amounts of data for companies,
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