This page is Open People’s energy-use plan for compute — not a campus pitch, not a reserved block, and not the front door of the site. Mines and Labrador industry come first. Compute is leftover-firm-power optionality if the province writes it eligible.
Quarantine page for compute. The DCIA Material Terms do not name AI or data centres as a reserved industrial class. No firm MW, price, queue, or policy preference for Labrador compute is confirmed. Open People is not a DCIA party, offtake seat, or demand seat. Partners would own any steel.DCIA Material Terms (no named compute class) · Open People Path C
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The public desk is Tracker, Industries, and Costs. This page exists so compute copy does not open the site.
Mining first
Operating mines and the Labrador West corridor are first in line. This page does not jump that queue.
Public retain language and the mines-minister framing are industrial / minerals. LAB-IND-1 and the Labrador West transmission constraint are the live industrial facts. Compute does not get a modelled reservation against those planks.
Named optionality, not a tranche
If leftover firm power is written eligible for named uses, compute can be one of those uses. Eligibility is a contract-text question still ahead.
Schedule B §4 ties NLH entitlements to “domestic load” without defining compute as eligible. Until Definitive Agreements or a provincial framework say otherwise, compute is optionality — not Annex B capacity.
No reserved megawatts
Open People does not hold megawatts, a price, or a queue position. Anyone reading this as a Labrador campus build plan has the wrong page — and the wrong organisation.
No Open People offtake, FID path, or reserved Labrador DC block. Path C: constituent / catalyst; if partners later build capacity, software layer only. Illustrative 100–150 MW “asks” in older brief copy are campaign asks, not government figures, and are not a reservation.
Neighbouring grids (context only)
Other provinces are rationing large new computing loads. That is context for leftover hydro — not a Labrador booking.
Québec has proposed a dedicated data-centre tariff (Hydro-Québec, Feb 2026, Régie pending) reported at 13¢/kWh. British Columbia and Alberta have capped or screened large AI / crypto-adjacent load. Those postures do not allocate Labrador megawatts. They are neighbouring-grid facts, quarantined here so they do not open the public site.Neighbouring-grid facts · not a Labrador reservation
What we have not proven
That the province will allocate firm Labrador power to compute over mining — not proven; minerals are named first.
Fibre economics for a training cluster at hyperscale path diversity — unproven; Labrador backbone is thin.
That public-sector demand alone banks a facility — not proven.
That binding agreements free near-term megawatts for a compute node — House endorsement is not that signature.
Hogan test: calm public precision. No reserved megawatts. No invented SPE. Partners would own any steel. Open People stays outside the DCIA — constituent and catalyst only.
Hogan test: calm public precision. No reserved MW, ¢/kWh industrial compute tariff, or demand seat. Wind SPE unnamed (DCIA §13). Open People is not a DCIA party.