On September 3, 2026, the federal government did something rare: it got nearly every major player in Canadian AI infrastructure to sign the same piece of paper. Canada's Responsible Data Centre Development Principles landed with 23 signatures attached — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, standing alongside homegrown builders like TELUS, Cologix, eStruxture, Equinix, Beacon Data Centers, and QScale. In a sector normally defined by provincial utility filings and municipal zoning fights, that's a genuinely unusual sight: the entire industry, in one room, agreeing to the same five rules.
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