Meta picks Alberta
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CaptainTrouble
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Yet, tons of right-wingers oppose this because they're all wannabe gardeners with a luddite spirit!
And tons of left-wingers oppose this because capitalism bad!
It's pathetic. There's nothing wrong with datacenters. Foreign investment like this is good. Yes, it would be better if Canada itself had an AI company to compete with Meta or even $13b to invest in Canada but all our competent Canadians left Canada because of our government.
All problems in Canada stem from the government. People need to stop hating companies like this investing in us and start hating the government.
And tons of left-wingers oppose this because capitalism bad!
It's pathetic. There's nothing wrong with datacenters. Foreign investment like this is good. Yes, it would be better if Canada itself had an AI company to compete with Meta or even $13b to invest in Canada but all our competent Canadians left Canada because of our government.
All problems in Canada stem from the government. People need to stop hating companies like this investing in us and start hating the government.
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Nuremburger
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Put one up beside your house and see how you like it. Endless anxiety due to the hum and light pollution that will never let you see the night sky again. The REAL environmental impact can’t be denied either. And that’s without getting into all the conspiracies about what these things actually are for.
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TOPDAWG
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I don't know. I mean I live in a suburb so I got street lights and cars going back and forth in front of my house sll the fucking time.
With a new build, more than likely some of those issues you listed. They know how to take care of at this point. I think most of the data centers for AI are all retrofit buildings that might be the issue. If they build a building from the ground up, they may can fix those issues.
Anyway, this is great depending on how it goes. Fuck the haters and crybabies.
With a new build, more than likely some of those issues you listed. They know how to take care of at this point. I think most of the data centers for AI are all retrofit buildings that might be the issue. If they build a building from the ground up, they may can fix those issues.
Anyway, this is great depending on how it goes. Fuck the haters and crybabies.
@TOPDAWG
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HJe_SDFNPY
Datacenters produce crap ton of heat. You can not just "retrofit" old industrial buildings unless it is old warehouse that has 20 foot high walls. You need a lot of room for new duct work and raised floors to run network infrastructure under. Even if you get some miracle building you have to gut the entire electrical wiring within it. At that point you are just better off building an new building.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HJe_SDFNPY
Datacenters produce crap ton of heat. You can not just "retrofit" old industrial buildings unless it is old warehouse that has 20 foot high walls. You need a lot of room for new duct work and raised floors to run network infrastructure under. Even if you get some miracle building you have to gut the entire electrical wiring within it. At that point you are just better off building an new building.
TOPDAWG
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@Thinker I thought the whole idea of building these things in Alberta was a simple fact. There's so much damn land and they can build them in the middle of nowhere and still have access to Major infrastructure.
This Facebook thing sounds like it's a brand new building build. They're not going to retrofit an old building or anything.
The water water noise is one thing. The biggest issues with these things seems to be electricity, which honestly will 100% affect everyone in the area by making it a lot more expensive.
This Facebook thing sounds like it's a brand new building build. They're not going to retrofit an old building or anything.
The water water noise is one thing. The biggest issues with these things seems to be electricity, which honestly will 100% affect everyone in the area by making it a lot more expensive.
BeerAndOil
Traumatized
This one is getting built in Sturgeon County, right along refinery row. So the hum and the pollution will fit right in with the already existing refineries, plastics, and fertilizer plants.
I get not wanting one built next to your house, I wouldn’t either, but this one is in an already established heavy industry zone.
I get not wanting one built next to your house, I wouldn’t either, but this one is in an already established heavy industry zone.
TOPDAWG
Based Member
BeerAndOil
Traumatized
@TOPDAWG let’s get outraged at private AI data centres being the machinery that the state will use to enact further control over the populace. Just look at the flock cameras that are all over the USA and coming into Canada. They are privately owned, the data processing is private, and the municipalities just pay an access fee to use the system. It will track your vehicle across town, and is now starting to track people just walking around.
TOPDAWG
Based Member
@BeerAndOil Yes, but all that stuff was already around. They already had programs and algorithms that could track your face no matter where you walked. This is not new. The UK has had this shit for years.
They've been tracking people and tracking your vehicles and tags for years.
They've been tracking people and tracking your vehicles and tags for years.
ovarieasy
Based Member
I don't want to be twacked by big tech and gov'nments! But thewe's nothing wong with the infwastwuctuwe to do it (✿◕‿◕)
CaptainTrouble
Well-Known Member
You aren't going to defeat the future by hanging onto the past. If Edmonton builds a data center, it's much closer for you to take over with your army.
ovarieasy
Based Member
Issues they always seem to shove this in rural area instead of urban or suburban area where it makes sense. Let alone if this datacenter actually get built and the government just half-ass it like usual.
TOPDAWG
Based Member
It'll probably never get built. I mean look at all these insane deals. Trump said that were coming in all these companies and they were going to build in the US. I've yet to really see shit.
I'll believe it once they start building it. Also, so faras I know Facebook has failed pretty bad at AI. I'm pretty sure they just sold a lot of infrastructure to others because they fucked up.
I just can't believe Google and Facebook have so much money from just data harvesting their users and giving them bullshit ads.
I'll believe it once they start building it. Also, so faras I know Facebook has failed pretty bad at AI. I'm pretty sure they just sold a lot of infrastructure to others because they fucked up.
I just can't believe Google and Facebook have so much money from just data harvesting their users and giving them bullshit ads.
brutana_dilewski
Exercise is for women.
ayn_rands_ghost
Commie Crusher
Jobs for Albertans? or (more than likely) Indian tfw's?
TOPDAWG
Based Member
They would not be tfws. This is skilled labor to get these things up and running.
Also the first year is going to be nothing but construction. You damn know you ain't going to see no Jeet working out in the hot sun. It's still pretty rare to see them on a construction site. The only time you see diversity on a construction site is someone holding the slowdown sign or stop sign. They'll stick a woman or a brown doing that job . The people doing the dirty work are usually white boys.
Also the first year is going to be nothing but construction. You damn know you ain't going to see no Jeet working out in the hot sun. It's still pretty rare to see them on a construction site. The only time you see diversity on a construction site is someone holding the slowdown sign or stop sign. They'll stick a woman or a brown doing that job . The people doing the dirty work are usually white boys.
