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I almost agree with everything he said.
The thing I disagree on: what the billboard should say.
Instead it should say "data centres are awesome, British Columbia should lead the way."
More than 99% of all images that I post had their alt text generated using AI.
Gonna spend the Saturday coding from a coffee shop with the help of an AI assistant.
In honour AI Data Centres protest day.
(The alt texts were written with the help of AI, because I don't have time for that stuff.)
"From our perspective, it's business as usual," said Paul Palandjian, the O'Leary Digital co-founder and chief executive officer.
The electoral campaigning "saw a fair amount of misinformation — including a development footprint described as far larger than what's actually planned and claims about heat that simply aren't how the technology works," he said. "That had an effect, and politics is politics. But the facts haven't changed, and neither have we. We're steadfast, and we're moving forward."
Box Elder county resident: O'Leary's totally tone deaf on the project and so are the people that are pushing the project."
This. Share widely.
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There is no regulator for data centres. There are no laws or rules around the “heat island effect.” So, who is protecting us from these harms?
“The data centre won’t be introducing a single novel disturbance into intact boreal forest. rather it will be layering an enormous new thermal, acoustic, air-emissions, and water demand on top of an environment already fragmented by resource extraction—across territory in which the Cree Nation exercises Treaty and harvesting rights.”
These are what is known as “cumulative effects" something that is typically considered in an environmental impact assessment. The Alberta government has already exempted the project from that assessment.
Find out which questions I asked of government officials (and O’Leary) that they did not want to answer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/olearys-data-centre-will-be-one-of
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