President Trump's 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, alongside a 10 percent duty on Chinese imports, are raising alarms for US datacenters. The tech industry criticizes these tariffs as detrimental, contributing to market instability. In retaliation, Canadian groups, notably the Canadian Labour Congress, propose withholding energy supplies to the US as a form of protest against what they term an 'attack on Canadian workers.' This is concerning given the US's reliance on Canadian electricity for various states, amidst the burgeoning energy consumption of datacenters already contributing to 4.4 percent of the nation’s power use.
According to Heatmap News, the US imports thousands of gigawatt hours of electricity from Canada every year. While this makes up less than 1 percent of total American power consumption nationwide, it's a significant and growing source of low-cost, low-carbon power for some regions.
One group making this suggestions is the Canadian Labour Congress, which labeled the US tariffs 'an attack on Canadian workers and our economy,' and called for cutting off US access to critical Canadian resources.
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