Meta announces its first data center in Canada — estimated $9 billion 1GW Alberta mega facility sees the Al expansion cross the border
https://www.techradar.com/pro/meta-announces-its-first-data-center-in-canada-estimated-usd9-billion-1gw-alberta-mega-facility-sees-the-ai-expansion-cross-the-border
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betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 57d
"The project will also see its electricity usage matched with “100% clean and renewable energy” -
Oh boy, they found a way ("matched") to use words “100% clean and renewable energy” as a cover to dismiss that it will actually be powered by fossil fuels.
Sunshine@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 57d
Yup, they’re gonna use natural gas for it!
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 57d
Fossil fuel promoters are so embarrassed about it that they always try to gloss over it and call it by other names. It's the oil & gas sector but they're too ashamed to call it that. Anything to ignore the millions of tons of new emissions they cause.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 57d
Frackin' dinosaur farts? Losers.
Sunshine@piefed.ca · 27 pts · 58d
More disinformation for the Albertan separatists.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 58d
Guess I have a much higher energy bill to look forward to.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 57d
Don't just roll over. Write your MLAs and MP. Write Marlaina. Sign e-7427. Protest. Don't accept that this is just the way it has to be.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 57d
Yep can't wait.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 57d
I've said it before, but a reminder that the UCP has been denying renewable energy companies from doing business in Alberta, but they allow this shit!
https://www.pembina.org/pub/wind-solar-projects-alberta-cancelled-alarming-rate
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 57d
I'm absolutely not surprised Temu MAGA are up to more anti-human shenanigans. It's been their brand since Lougheed helped them weasel the election, slowly boiling that frog more each year.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 57d
I should have guessed it would be Alberta. C'mon Canada, build your own shit. Meta? Really? Meta..?!
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 12 pts · 57d
Fuck Meta and fuck Mark Carney for letting this happen, fucking scumbag capitalist.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 57d
I love how you're putting a conservative provincial decision on a liberal federal rep. That's some creative blamestorming, and they'd love to see us all do that.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 56d
I think this American AI bullshit should have been banned at the federal level before it ever got to the provincial level. Carney is a center-right fiscal-conservative who wants nothing more than for capitalists to rape our resources for financial gain. Liberals should be a step ahead of conservatives, especially when they lead the Fed and they're clearly not. They're obviously just letting this happen because they want the dollars.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 55d
Hate this so much. Ugh.