“…Over the last century, the North has attracted fanciful notions about how to jump-start the regional economy. In the past few decades, only a few have worked: oil and gas in the Russian North, Prudhoe Bay oil in Alaska, diamonds in the Northwest Territories, iron ore in Nunavut, North Sea oil off Norway, Santa Claus in Rovaniemi, Finland, and the massive hydro-electric developments in northern Quebec (Gouvernement du Québec, 2019;Simard, 2017;Brun et al, 2017). In the high-tech sector, notable developments are few in number, including Luleå's impressive transformation into Europe's server farm center and Skellefteå's planned battery mega-factory.…”