While a sovereign data center is attractive, does it make sense to put a highly sensitive data centre & bomb-&-spy-magnet in a highly populated city? It makes sense for our data & personnel with expertise to shepherd it to be Canadian, no question. But if we're going to be working on Gripens as well as F-35s, & knowing that data centres require serious cooling measures but would also become military targets, wouldn't it make more sense to be more remote, further from US & Russian borders, someplace where the data scientists & soldiers depending on that data are in proximity, but also generally cooler? Someplace like Gimli (nice Nordics connection, there, with an old military airport that could be upgraded) or Cold Lake (already has an air base) -- both of which are beautiful places to live, two hours access to cities with research universities & international airports, & have consistently cooler seasonal temperatures with deep water lakes for the data centre cooling.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/saab-lockheed-martin-fighters-data-defence-9.7157673







