Kevin O'Leary pins water licence for $70-billion data centre project on a small Alberta municipality

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/20/news/kevin-oleary-pins-water-licence-70-billion-data-centre-project-small-alberta

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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 133d

Fuck you Kevin.

streetfestival@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 133d (1 reply)

But there's a catch: before the sale goes through, the municipality must "act as an agent" for O'Leary's company by securing provincial water licences that give the facility access to up to 24 million cubic metres of water annually.

That's enough water for about 460,000 people over their lifetimes, drawn from a municipality that last year declared an agricultural emergency because of drought.

Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 131d

Yeah fuck that. Just say no.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Hey Kev. Who was really driving the boat?

Medic8eme@piefed.ca · 20 pts · 133d

Like this POS would ever let his wife have control of something.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Just one more stupid fucker who thinks, because he has money, he is smarter than the rest.

grte@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 133d

It's as though they think being a giant piece of shit and offloading your costs onto the community is some genius play no one has ever thought of rather than not done because most people aren't sociopaths.

Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 133d

Wonder Valley is a pump and dump. There's not enough east/west internet links from that part of Canada, and you have to cross the rockies to get to the Pacific.

glibg@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 133d

Kevin O'Leary is a piece of shit who cares only about money.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 133d (2 replies)

Why do rich fucks like this guy hate Canadian communities?

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 132d

The ultra rich hate everyone. They're psychopaths* who only care about pumping up the numbers in their bank accounts. Nationality and community is meaningless to them outside of knowing which politicians are susceptable to bribes

edit: change sociopaths to psychopaths

Auli@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 133d

Well didn't OLeary move to the states. He can stay there.

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 132d

Fuck off Kevin.

7rokhym@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 132d

Alberta has overallocated their watershed. The allocated water simple doesn't exist, it was based on estimations created decades ago. The province keeps accelerating their pace toward a water calamity. Agriculture, oil industry, urban growth, and now data centres.