Finance committee  That's the exciting part, the side benefits. The number of companies that are selling the heat from their computers to their local community centres, that are coming off the grid and not using natural gas, using immersion technologies to cool these machines and transfer that hea

Finance committee  The challenge with that is that there is provincial sales tax with respect to the commercial use of electricity. In terms of the incentives.... The reason I've emphasized it in Alberta is that there's no provincial.... All provinces have some form of provincial tax. For some it'

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the question. I appreciate Mr. Blaikie's question as well about identifying the recipient of the supply. The officials—we've listened to the testimony—have consistently said, “Well, with the blockchain, you can't identify who's transferring; therefore, th

Finance committee  I can take you to the exact problem in the legislation. If you have subclause 118(1) of the BIA available—that's proposed section 188.2—there's a definition of “mining activity”. Paragraph (c) says a mining activity includes “allowing computing resources to be used for the purp