Ford to municipalities opposing data centres: 'Either we do it, or Donald Trump's going to do it'

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

Only the sith speak in false dilemmas.

Not much of a threat.

"Donald Trump thinks this is a good project."

Ok. Ok. Interesting way to sell it.

So let them do it. None of these are going to bring anything into our economy once built. They are all american companies and there are very few jobs in a data centre.

Oh please speak publicly abt this Doug. Let's see how such a real galvanizing issue works out for you.

Elbows out now replaced by KNEEPADS BACK ON.

Trump is going to do what? Lean hard into a bubble before it pops? Great, let him do that. Let's not compete with him on being as stupid as possible.

Doug, have you solved all the crises facing the people you represent? Is this really the most pressing business you can think of? New York city is making all you capitalist ass lickers look so obvious when you care more about data centers than poverty, housing, food security, education, healthcare, and, I guess very relevant to the current discussion, the environment.

Spoken like a true tyrant.

By that logic raping little girls, bombing hospitals and defrauding taxpayers are also options.

Maybe don't use that logic.

Either we destroy the world, or Donald trump is going to do it!

Is that a threat?

Nah.

We're bringing guillotines to the town meetings down here too.

The companies currently lining up for AI data centers are pretty well all American techno-fascists. Those techno fascist corporations will have zero issue using whatever datacenters offer the cheapest rates, and the easiest regulations -- and as they're all making moves to establish 'freedom cities' where there are no government regulations curtailing their activities, those are the most likely places these datacenters will eventually go. Even the existing batches of datacenters are largely moving to areas with government incentives for the construction.

Without a healthy AI market/industry in Canada, with the benefits going to Canadians, the case for spending a shitload of resources on the infrastructure the Americans want isn't really prudent. Especially as we can clearly see at the moment, how committed the Americans are to friendly trade relations.

If you don't light the datacenter on fire, someone else will.

Or we could just ban the use of AI.

This guy has got to go

Is he ensuring none of these AI companies have US investors/ownership?

I hear there's some land around the etobicoke region where some fat fuck has yearly bbq's for other idiots.

I'm fine with that.

Fingers crossed a whack of server racks fall on Trump Ford and ends his fat fucking useless life while he’s visiting one of these MAGA flock data centres.

Truly, I hope he dies and dies painfully

Ontario is facing extreme 30c/kwh electricity rates starting in 2027, due to nuclear refurbishments, but most of it is paid for with taxpayer debt. OPG, generally gets to charge rate payers for network expansion, so ensuring all those costs are paid by datacenter would be minimum.

It's unclear if this would raise or lower rates for rate/tax payers. Rates are extreme due to less than full capacity utilization, and the other condition for datacenters would be that they pay the full unsubsizized rate (30c/kwh) and get cut off during scarcity events.

wth, is the connection to Trump? He will raise tarriffs more if Ford refuses?