Exactly. One caller during a CBC phone in show was saying how he thought it was good for Canada to get into AI and build our skills so we’re more competitive.
I was like… dude… this is Meta’s data centre, the only Canadians employed will be a handfull of DC techs and maintenance staff. ALL the real work is being done remotely. These are literally here just to burn fossel fules at an incredible rate. Thats it.
“If we don’t build it someone else will” Great, let them then. The only people who benifit here are the construction and gas companies, then the environment suffers for however long they run. If someone wants to build and environmentally sustainable DC then cool, I’m all ears, but that’s never what’s being proposed. We’re in hyperscale mode here, the only thing that matters is speed and dropping a box down ontop of a natural gas reserve is as fast as it gets.
Either we do it, or one of the dumbest people in the world who started a war he could not win is going to do it.
I don’t think this is as good of an argument as he seems to think it is.
Or to put it another way:
If I don’t eat this day old roadkill, RFK Jr will
And by “we” Doug means American corporations. The Meta data center getting built near me isn’t Canadian.
Exactly. One caller during a CBC phone in show was saying how he thought it was good for Canada to get into AI and build our skills so we’re more competitive.
I was like… dude… this is Meta’s data centre, the only Canadians employed will be a handfull of DC techs and maintenance staff. ALL the real work is being done remotely. These are literally here just to burn fossel fules at an incredible rate. Thats it.
“If we don’t build it someone else will” Great, let them then. The only people who benifit here are the construction and gas companies, then the environment suffers for however long they run. If someone wants to build and environmentally sustainable DC then cool, I’m all ears, but that’s never what’s being proposed. We’re in hyperscale mode here, the only thing that matters is speed and dropping a box down ontop of a natural gas reserve is as fast as it gets.
send your roadkill penises to Ford, now, so he can pause datacenters.