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The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness is hosting a virtual panel examining how Canada should define and implement cloud and compute sovereignty.

• Main announcement: ITIF’s Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness will host a virtual panel webinar on June 9, 2026, 03:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT, to discuss what control over cloud and compute requires in practice versus symbolism; the event references “billions of public and private dollars” now in motion and features panelists Graeme Harrison (Co-Founder & CEO, Simply Silicon), Jaxson Khan (CEO, Aperture AI), and **Lawrence Zhang (Head of Poli

Digital Edge advises buyers to integrate renewable-energy strategy into data centre site selection and commercial planning.

• Main action: Digital Edge recommends that buyers treat renewable-energy strategy (including PPAs) as part of the site-evaluation framework, not just marketing — assessing reporting credibility, platform-level structure, and how energy commitments affect long-term operations. The piece is an advisory/opinion article from Digital Edge, not a news bulletin of a new commercial transaction.
• Background and detail: The article explains local regulatory context and market examples — India (CEEW, CERC), Thailand (Energy Regulatory Commiss

NVIDIA and LG Group announced they will build an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses across robotics, mobility, data centers and GPU cloud services.

• Main announcement: NVIDIA and LG Group will build an AI factory providing accelerated computing infrastructure to train, simulate, validate and deploy AI applications across LG’s businesses (robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies, GPU cloud services). The collaboration integrates NVIDIA DSX, NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, Isaac GR00T, NVIDIA Cosmos, and Blackwell GPUs with LG entities (LG Electronics, LG Innotek, LG CNS, LG Uplus, LG Energy Solution) and includes

NVIDIA is expanding a collaboration with Doosan Group to integrate NVIDIA’s physical AI and accelerated computing platforms across Doosan’s robotics, construction equipment, power generation and advanced materials businesses.

• Main announcement: NVIDIA and Doosan Group will combine NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated computing platforms (DSX, MGX, Isaac, Cosmos, Jetson Thor) with Doosan Group’s capabilities in industrial automation, power generation and advanced electronics materials to support next-generation AI factory infrastructure and physical AI deployments.
• Details & scope: The collaboration includes Doosan Robotics integrating NVIDIA robotics frameworks and fo

Kari Hyde of the Pembina Institute argues jurisdictions should require data centres to bring flexibility as well as power when connecting to local grids (op-ed published June 5, 2026 in Canada’s National Observer).

• Main action:Require data centres to ‘bring their own power’ and to ‘bring their own flexibility’ — the author calls for policies and utility processes that make flexible demand visible and valuable (examples of flexibility: shifting computing loads, strategic cooling management, onsite batteries/backup systems, and high-efficiency equipment). The piece cites an IEA projection that data centres will account for **nearly half of US electricity demand