Little chance of firing up Kap, North Bay gas plants: Power producer shoots down media report of data centre.

An American electricity producer denied that a data centre tenant is moving into its idled North Bay power plant property.

Atlantic Power responded to a media report in mid-August where its consultant told North Bay city council that an unnamed data storage company was eyeballing the Highway 11 property as a possible tenant. The Dedham, Mass. company issued a release on Aug. 17 indicating this was incorrect.

A city planning official told council that Atlantic Power had applied for a change in zoning for the plant. This information, the company indicates, is correct.

Atlantic Power said it's marketing both its shuttered North Bay and Kapuskasing power plants to a "range of potential customers or alternate users of the sites.

"The company wishes to correct this misstatement by the consultant by indicating that it does not have any agreements in place or any prospective agreements for either the North Bay or Kapuskasing plants. Although its marketing efforts are continuing, discussions have not progressed beyond an initial stage. The company has no plans to restart operations at either plant in the near term."

Both the North Bay and...