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With vast amounts of cheap and renewable electricity mostly generated from hydro dams, Quebec is seeing more and more tech giants setting up power-hungry data centres in the Canadian province amid soaring demand for cloud services. Fifty data centres currently operate in Quebec, up from 39 just two years ago. Many are owned by multinationals such as Amazon, the global leader in cloud computing through its subsidiary Amazon Web Services, as well as Microsoft, Google and IBM. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES