patatas18h ago
Planning Committee vote coming up on Councillor Nann's motion to institute a one-year data centre moratorium until there is a Municipal Framework around data centres. It may be the first of its kind in Canada. #HamOnt #Steelport #AIDataCentres
JEmphatically23h ago

Olds residents are fighting the Synapse data centre with facts. And awaiting answers to plenty of questions. Meanwhile, the company initially failed to notify the Olds hospital of their plans before submitting their application to the AUC.

“Is our fire department adequately staffed/equipped to control a major fire or explosion? Within 500 metres of the project site there is a retail gas station and cardlock facility, plus residences, hotels, restaurants, small businesses, our college, and major roads.”

https://www.thealbertan.com/opinion/letter-olds-data-centre-could-have-big-impacts-12380741

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #AIdataCentres #AIdataCenters #artificialIntelligence #alberta #saveolds

LETTER: Olds data centre could have big impacts

Letter writer urges people who are concerned about proposal to write Olds council

The Albertan
Show threadFrancisca SinnJun 8

“The problem with this marvelous plan is that at some point there had to be an honest transaction — real, honest, sustainable demand based on a reliable product that people liked paying for because they understood its value. Right now, AI revenues are either chaotically experimental or so thoroughly-subsidized that labs are giving away hundreds of dollars a user in the hopes that at some point said user might want to pay even more money for measurably less value, the kind of proposition you make when you think your customers are fucking idiots.”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/

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AI Is Slowing Down

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Show threadFrancisca SinnJun 8

“But seriously folks, the combined compute demand of every single AI company in the world doesn’t currently reach $100 billion — and it needs to be ten times that by 2030 or all those data centers got built for no reason!

And for that to happen, both Anthropic and OpenAI need to be making about $400 billion a year in annual revenue, which means there needs to actually be that much demand for AI services! Right now, Anthropic and OpenAI’s combined projected revenues for 2026 sit somewhere in the region of $60 billion — so, you know, they only need to grow by 496% by the end of 2029! “

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/

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AI Is Slowing Down

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CBC EdmontonJun 8
What's behind the growing backlash toward AI data centres?
Opposition to AI data centres has been growing across the country, driven by concerns about how much land, electricity and water these massive facilities consume.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-data-centre-opposition-explained-9.7225796?cmp=rss
JEmphaticallyJun 7

According to architecture and design firm Gensler, Wonder Valley Alberta is “designed to capture and sequester 100% of carbon from on-site natural gas power generation,” and “the project dramatically reduces operational emissions at an unprecedented scale.”

That’s quite the claim!??

There’s no carbon capture mentioned in the Wonder Valley project description filed with the Alberta government. Even the marketing materials do not claim to have CCS.

“Carbon-capture-ready power generation” sounds a lot like...#greenwashing

https://www.olearydigital.ai

https://www.gensler.com/projects/wonder-valley-data-centre-park

#AIDataCentres #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #drought #environment #AIDataCenters #WonderValleyAlberta

Wonder Valley | Where the grid ends, we begin.

15 GW across two countries. Engineered for the AI era.

Wonder Valley
CBC HamiltonJun 7
What's behind the growing backlash towards AI data centres?
Opposition to AI data centres has been growing across the country, driven by concerns about how much land, electricity and water these massive facilities consume.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-data-centre-opposition-explained-9.7225796?cmp=rss
CBC ManitobaJun 7
What's behind the growing backlash towards AI data centres?
Opposition to AI data centres has been growing across the country, driven by concerns about how much land, electricity and water these massive facilities consume.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-data-centre-opposition-explained-9.7225796?cmp=rss
CBC British ColumbiaJun 7
What's behind the growing backlash towards AI data centres?
Opposition to AI data centres has been growing across the country, driven by concerns about how much land, electricity and water these massive facilities consume.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-data-centre-opposition-explained-9.7225796?cmp=rss
JEmphaticallyJun 6

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is calling for a federal environmental impact assessment on Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Valley project after a study suggests the 9 GW data centre and power plant could release massive amounts of heat in an area already struggling with drought.

The scientist who did the study called the new class of hyperscale AI data centres “Gigascale AI Smelters, smelting data and material strip-mined from people and planet.”

The report was released just as the first Wonder Valley open house was held near Grande Prairie and dozens of people showed up with questions and concerns.

The project was announced in December of 2024 but has been stalled since then. Now, it appears to be moving forward, despite concerns of local First Nations.

Read more about this AI mega-project that's the size of 130 West Edmonton Malls in my breaking news story for The Energy Mix.

https://www.theenergymix.com/breaking-olearys-data-centre-will-be-one-of-earths-largest-heat-sources-physicist-warns/

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