Ï㽶ÊÓƵ News - bitcoin /channels/news_feeds/all/term/bitcoin/rss en From ore mining to data mining: the economy of Western Labrador diversifies for the 21st Century /channels/news/ore-mining-data-mining-town-western-labrador-diversifies-its-economy-261858 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/data-storage-bitcoins-western-labrador-1.3694238">An item in today's CBC News</a> reports on towns in Labrador West that are repositioning their economies for the 21st Century. These local economies once relied on mining minerals but are now housing data centres. The cheaper power and cooler air of the area make them ideal for data warehousing, since such centres use a lot of electricity and cause machines to heat up. Great North Data, a company based out of St.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">26 </span><span class="month">July </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:29:54 +0000 webfull 120068 at /channels