Build housing. Not data centres. - Gabriola Sounder

Build housing. Not data centres. - Gabriola Sounder

Staff with the City of Nanaimo state a proposed data centre in the city will consume at minimum 55,000 litres of water per day. That’s 14,529 gallons. Enough to get a family of four Gabriolans through four to five months of spring, summer, and early fall. The City staff say this amount equates to what a 35 unit apartment building would use in the same time period. If that’s the case, bring on the housing. Split into 35, the data centre’s physica…