Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to take part in a virtual town hall focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in the province. The session features Smith alongside Alberta’s technology minister and is scheduled for Thursday.
The town hall is part of a broader series organized by the Alberta government to explain its approach to attracting and regulating data centres. One outlet specifies it is the third event of four planned town halls, indicating the government is using multiple sessions to hear or communicate information ahead of future decisions or policies. Across the reports, the emphasis is on the event itself rather than the content of any proposed rules or locations.
While the outlets largely agree on the participants and purpose—government consultation and public information about AI data centre development—details such as timing and the number of town halls appear to be provided most explicitly in one report. Overall, all accounts frame the meeting as a government-led forum on data-centre planning and oversight in Alberta.
