Last year, the Terrace Standard reported that the city was in talks with a company called Skeena Data Centres about potentially siting a data centre at the municipally-owned industrial park land near the airport. City Council is now considering a bylaw that would ban data centres from the downtown area, but would allow them in the industrial park, despite the fact that hundreds of Terrace residents have already signed a petition opposing AI data centre construction in our community.

Join us in telling City Council NO to AI data centres in our community. The proposed bylaw is a step forward from no regulation at all, but it does not reflect the overwhelming opposition of our community to having these projects here at all.

Why would we want a major infrastructure project that uses huge amounts of electricity, emits noise and air pollution, enriches foreign billionaires, and creates virtually no employment, when the only upside is that tech companies will replace our jobs with subscription fees?

We’ve included a template letter here, but if you can, do your best to personalize the letter with your own thoughts.