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Battery storage is moving from the sidelines to the centre of Canada's electricity system. Ontario is leading the way, with a major procurement pipeline and landmark projects like Oneida coming online, while the Pickering refurbishment opens a supply gap that storage...

Canada’s data centre expansion is often discussed as a technology and electricity story, but it is also an emerging freight and industrial-logistics story. Every new facility requires substantial volumes of steel, concrete, copper, aluminum, transformers, cooling systems and computing equipment to be manufactured and transported to the project site. As data centre construction accelerates, demand is likely to rise across trucking, rail freight, ports, warehousing, heavy-haul logistics and specialized project delivery. This article examines how the growth of data centres could reshape freight demand, strengthen Canadian manufacturing opportunities and expose new infrastructure and supply-chain constraints.