The Canadian Civic Infrastructure Alliance (CCIA) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization working with residents, municipal officials, researchers, and policy experts to strengthen public capacity around major digital and energy infrastructure decisions.
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CCIA submission to Ontario's Data Centre Playbook consultation
The CCIA's work on data-centre development involves communities and municipal actors across Ontario and the country. While specific local circumstances can differ, the underlying governance issue is the same. Municipalities are being asked to assess large infrastructure projects of a novel nature even while existing standards and frameworks remain non-enforceable, incomplete, and outdated. Project information is often fragmented or opaque, making local costs and benefits difficult to assess and verify.
We welcome Ontario's decision to develop a provincial Data Centre Playbook. For the framework to succeed, it must treat municipalities as governments with independent authority over host-community impacts, not as mere stakeholders to be consulted only after major investment and grid decisions have already been made.
Read our full submission here.
About us
Bhavyatta (Bea) Bhardwaj | Director & Cofounder
Research, Consulting
Bhavyatta Bhardwaj is a systems governance researcher and consultant who has led cybersecurity and digital transformation programs in both the public and private sector.
Nick Tsergas | Cofounder
Research, Policy Development
Nick Tsergas is a health and tech journalist and founder of Stop the Datacentre, a Canadian network supporting communities seeking enforceable rules for AI data-centre development. His work is currently done in partnership with the Small Change Fund.
Dan Shannon | Cofounder
Research, Policy Development
Dan Shannon is a researcher and independent investigative journalist who writes about technology and society.
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