How to Slow Down the AI Boom
The short version: Dogwood's video on B.C.'s Skeena data center push mirrors the same fracked-gas-for-GPUs playbook U.S. communities are fighting from Virginia to Texas.
Our Take
Credit to Dogwood for pulling back the curtain on the "Skeena Data Centers" proposal in Terrace, B.C. — a project that's currently little more than an AI-generated placeholder website, yet is already being floated as a customer for fracked gas piped in via the billionaire-backed PRGT line. It's a small, telling detail: the infrastructure commitments (pipelines, transmission, water rights) often get locked in before the actual tenant, the actual jobs, or the actual public benefit is anything more than a press release.
This isn't just a Canadian story. Mark Carney's "sovereign AI strategy" and Danielle Smith's push for nearly 21 gigawatts of gas-fired data center capacity in Alberta are the same playbook we're tracking south of the border — governors and utility commissions fast-tracking gas plants and transmission upgrades to keep hyperscalers happy, with ratepayers and local watersheds left holding the bag. Whether it's Loudoun County or Terrace, the pattern repeats: quiet approvals, vague water and power numbers, and a public that finds out after the site plan is already filed.
If you're tracking which utilities, counties, and pipelines are saying yes to this buildout in your own backyard, check our facility map and see what's already been approved near you — then head to our take-action page to find out how to get in front of the next vote, not after it.
This is GridWatch the USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Dogwood, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.