Still a lot of under utilized water courses in Canada.
NIMBY has been the stumbling block of many generation projects, whether they are Hydro, Wind, Gas, Nuclear, Solar. Everyone wants the power, no one wants the responsibility of dealing with flooding, mercury, birds, aesthetics, greenhouse gases, waste with extremely long half lives etc…
Ontario is around 50% nuclear generation and it has been pretty reliable.
I know little about these huge data servers but don’t they also perform better and use less power in a cold environment?