A Poll Finds Many Albertans Wary of Data Centres
CBC News reports that a poll it commissioned, conducted by Janet Brown Opinion Research, found many Albertans are wary of data centres. The same report quotes one political expert saying the province's welcome for a data-centre goldrush risks alienating voters in rural areas.
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Those are two claims of different sizes. The survey measures wariness among Albertans generally; the political warning is specifically about rural voters, who are a much smaller group than the poll's headline number suggests.
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And wariness is not the same as an electoral outcome. The expert is forecasting that a sentiment turns into alienated rural voters, which is a prediction a poll of current opinion cannot confirm on its own.