UM Todaydata centres – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Winnipeg Free Press: Big data, big footprint https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-big-data-big-footprint/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-big-data-big-footprint/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:48:50 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=225602 Premier Wab Kinew has been dropping hints the province could soon look to position itself as a leader in what some commentators are calling the “fourth industrial revolution.” “All the internet is, is someone else’s computer,” said Dr. John Anderson, computer science professor at the University of Manitoba who has spent his career researching artificial intelligence.]]> Premier Wab Kinew has been dropping hints the province could soon look to position itself as a leader in what some commentators are calling the “fourth industrial revolution.” “All the internet is, is someone else’s computer,” said Dr. John Anderson, computer science professor at the University of Manitoba who has spent his career researching artificial intelligence. “A data centre is a large collection of computers that is used usually for a particular purpose, but not necessarily for only one purpose, in an installation in one place.”

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