BC Hydro opens bids for data centre hook-ups, offers up 400 MW

The bidding for who gets to build data centres in B.C. is set to begin.
In a novel process, BC Hydro and the province are set to open the data centre connection queue to competitive bidding, and 400 megawatts of electricity is at stake. That’s about enough power for approximately 400,000 homes.
The government created this new process through legislation it passed in the fall. That bill, the Energy Statutes Amendment Act, also helped expedite the North Coast Transmission Line project, an el