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.
The public desk is Tracker, Industries, and Costs. This page exists so copy does not open the site. There is no gate clock here on purpose: this is not a project timeline.
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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.
Hydro-Québec filed a dedicated data-centre rate with the Régie de l’énergie on 19 February 2026: 13¢/kWh for data centres of 5 MW and up (blockchain 19.5¢), requested effective 1 November 2026; the Régie hearing is set for fall 2026 with a decision expected around year-end or early 2027. British Columbia’s regulation in force from 1 February 2026 caps allocations at 100 MW conventional plus 300 MW AI data-centre load for two years, and its crypto-mining moratorium is permanent. Alberta’s AESO 1,200 MW interim large-load limit (to 2028) is described by the province as fully taken, with a Data Centre Regulation in effect since June 2026. Those postures do not allocate Labrador megawatts. They are neighbouring-grid facts, kept on this page so they do not open the public site.
01That the province will allocate firm Labrador power to compute over mining — not proven; minerals are named first.
02Fibre economics for a training cluster at hyperscale path diversity — unproven; Labrador backbone is thin.
03That public-sector demand alone banks a facility — not proven.
04That binding agreements free near-term megawatts for a compute node — House endorsement is not that signature.
Calm public precision. No reserved megawatts. No invented wind company. Partners would own any steel. Open People stays outside the agreement, constituent and catalyst only.