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Quebec Wind Boom, Aikido’s Floating AI Platform

Allen covers Quebec’s record wind project, Madawaska’s financial close, Nova Scotia’s first direct-to-consumer wind sales, PEI’s retiring wind farm, and Aikido’s floating offshore AI data center.

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Good Monday everyone.

Canada is building.

On the last day of March… the province of Quebec broke ground on the largest wind energy project in Canadian history.

It is called Des Neiges… French for “of the snows.”

One hundred and fourteen turbines. Two hundred meters tall each. Seven megawatts apiece.

When the first two phases are complete… those turbines will power one hundred and forty thousand homes.

The partners are Boralex, Énergir, and Hydro-Quebec. The investment: three billion dollars.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault said it plainly at a recent ceremony: “There is a global race right now to dramatically increase electricity production.”

He is not wrong.

Also in Quebec… the Madawaska Wind Energy Project just reached financial close. EDF Renewables and Hydro-Quebec are behind that one. Two hundred and seventy-four megawatts. Forty-five turbines. Financed under Green Loan Principles. Expected to power more than forty-four thousand homes.

Now… across the Gulf of Saint Lawrence… Nova Scotia is launching the Mersey River Wind project. One hundred and forty-eight-point-five megawatts. Thirty-three turbines.

And here is where it gets interesting. For the first time… consumers in the province will be able to buy electricity directly from a wind farm. Not from the utility. From the source. A company called Renewall Energy is already signing contracts with homeowners… businesses… even the city of Halifax.

And then there is Prince Edward Island. That province is saying goodbye to its very first wind farm.

North Cape began in two thousand and one. Sixteen turbines. Each rated at just point-six-six megawatts. The province’s newest turbines? Four-point-two megawatts each. The P.E.I. Energy Corporation is seeking bids for an environmental impact assessment… the first step toward replacement.

Twenty-five years ago… North Cape was a pioneer. Today… it is showing its age. That is how progress works.

But let us end on this.

Out in California… a company called Aikido Technologies has unveiled a floating wind platform… that also serves as an AI data center. The platform pairs an eighteen-megawatt turbine with onboard computing power… cooled by the surrounding ocean. A prototype is being built in Norway. Commercial launch: the United Kingdom… twenty twenty-eight.

The CEO put it simply: “Before we go off-world… we should go offshore.”

So… from Quebec to Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island… Canada is building its energy future at full speed. And somewhere out on the open ocean… someone is building the next chapter altogether.

And that is the state of the wind industry for the 6th of April 2026.

Join us tomorrow for the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

Quebec Wind Boom, Aikido’s Floating AI Platform

There’s a certain irony to the meme here.

It’s not the responsibility of anyone but the United States to remove Trump.

In fact, it would be a war crime of the same type that we’re inflicting on Iran for a foreign entity to attack a sovereign nation, simply because they don’t like what’s going on there.

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I was shocked (not really) to learn that people are being paid to create and post memes that troll the renewable energy industry, even if they have no basis in fact.  What we have at left is a great example.

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