With ongoing discussions and delegations about AI data centres going up across Canada, supporters who sign would like to present a 5 year moratorium on any development of an AI datacentre across the atlantic provinces. This period will allow for more research to be done to assess the environmental and ethical impacts that data centres and AI usage propose.

My intentions with this petition is to prove to our local government representatives that while corporations may push for AI, the uncharted territory is too much of a risk to take for our biodiversity. 

While AI seems promising, the AI data centres emit constant noise, pollute the air, drain and dirty the limited clean water sources, and require much more energy feeding into them then the local provinces have to provide.