The US is yet to produce a deployed SMR. In Canada construction of our first started in 2025 and it’s expected to come online in 2030, so probably after 2030. These timelines don’t look amazing at all for deploying power for the needs of hyperscale datacenters.
The climate change that causes the lack of snowpack has everything to do with the corruption. Solving that wont solve climate change or the drought but it will drastically reduce further climate change and drought.
Found it - lemmy.ca/post/63312400. This is the pic they don’t show in the articles.
Here’s a bit of a zoom out of the situation in case it looks like it’s just one row of houses:
Aaadn FUCK ME, just as I was doing that, I realized that’s ANOTHER DC on Argentia Rd. The one that got shutdown in Mississauga is here:
The one in Etobicoke is still under review. Seems like the people from the hood are pestering the city about it.
The map doesn’t show it well but there’s residential neighbourhood very close to it. I posted abt it sometime ago but couldn’t dig up the pic. Highway noise is bad but it doesn’t do the subsonic 24/7 noise as far as I know.
Good regardless of DCs. If and when they have the capacity, and places where DCs can pollute without harming people, there would naturally be a lot less opposition.
Not 300m away from the nearest row of houses.
Goddamn. I mean, I’m not gonna deride a neighbour in need for taking money. Just hits a bit different when it’s a former ONDP leader.
In regulation development conversations it’s the industry’s lobby talking to our gov’t. Experience shows we tend to lose. In the “should we build” conversations, it’s much easier for us to express our binary desire and for surveys to capute and relay to our gov’t. We tend to win more often. It’s much easier to sling loophole-ridden regulation as “we fulfilled people’s desires for regulation” than let DC builds go ahead when most of us don’t want them. So we scream no DCs to anyone and everyone. We use the tools we’re given.
I personally would much prefer to live in a situation where private capital is subsurvient to the state abd therefore democratically enacted regulation does what we want it to do and punishes capital when it oversteps. But that’s not our status quo and we can’t feasibly change it for at least another 4-5 years, prolly more like 10+. So I scream no DCs to whoever would listen.
I’d take anything from Build Canada with a Shopify billionaire-branded bucket of salt.
With that said - yeah we theoretically couls do semis, if we develop the education capacity that then develops the workforce capacity which would do the R&D. Except that’s a decade+ project so we need to be able to do national level long-term industrial development planning. Can we do that? I think experience over the last couple of decades points to no. Neither of the two parties regularly administering our economy has been doing that for a long time. Instead they rely primarily on markets and so we are where we are. Until we make an ideological shift away from that, get closer to what we used to do when we developed the difficult stuff through crown corps, and funded public R&D consistently, I don’t think we’re getting semicon manufacturing, among other things in Canada. And Build Canada won’t be advoctaing for that. If in doubt:
What Must Be Done
Canada can learn from these examples to transform the know-how and capital locked up in CPFC into a world class company and ecosystem of compound semiconductor development. A shining opportunity to create a new batch of future global champions. The first key step is bringing in private partners and recapitalizing the fab following the successful examples with CN rail, and Petro-Canada4.
They’ve identified a remnant of the public R&D investment we used to do and want the gov’t to sell it to them. You know, like the joyful privatization of CN Rail.
If you’re Hamiltonian, is it true that Horwath did not oppose it?
100%
One could do solar and wind quicker but we can’t, because we don’t have any semblance of planning in our economy. So if they build the DCs now it’ll happen on market principles, which means competition for exisring electricity supply with poorer customers - all of us, as well as portable gas turbines where the grid has no capacity or the price is too high.
Perhaps. There’s already a huge demand for gender affirming care via breast implants among women. Perhaps public funding would also help steer towards longer lasting and less harmful implants at lower prices.
Nice try feds! We all love flock.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bakx-york-ai-data-centres-alberta-solomon-9.7222388
The research shows the rapid growth in the sector; active data centres have a combined capacity of 1.6 gigawatts, while all of the proposed projects would inflate that number to 13.2 gigawatts.
13GW is like 8-9% of Canada’s generation capacity. Prolly gonna be concentrated regionally so maybe even higher proportion of local generation. This cannot, not have impact on prices given that we’re not installing new generating capacity quickly at all (thank you Doug Ford in Ontario), and what we’ve seen elsewhere, we’re gonna pay higher rates and since electricity is an input to almost everything else, like oil, we’re bound to see higher inflation. I don’t want inflation and we’re not capable of planning industrial development so that we install the generating capacity first, then build damn the DCs, so I don’t want them. I don’t trust the industry and the investors behind it, and I don’t want to pay for it. At this point in time - fuck 'em. Once the current bubble has burst, I’d reevaluate. Right now it’s full of heavily invested and indebted liars, psychopaths and other grifters, none of which bodes well for a sane picture of the industry.
I do run local AI btw.
And oh look:
https://www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffries-rejects-medicare-for-all-dsa-agenda-12328842
Appearing on NBC News’ Meet the Press, the New York Democrat was asked by host Kristen Welker about whether he backs the single-payer health care proposal, which he previously co-sponsored before ascending to the party’s top leadership post. He confirmed that he no longer supports the measure, saying, “It’s not legislation that I currently am cosponsoring or that I support.”
Last month, the Canadian Industrial Relations Board reprimanded the Bank of Canada for using GardaWorld employees to replace striking security personnel. GardaWorld also offers a range of physical security services to companies whose employees are on strike. These services include, in particular, managing access to construction sites blocked by picket lines and “crowd control.”
I guess we’re back to private armies “crowd controlling” workers.
They’re not arguing that both do the samr thing. They are arguing that Side A and Side B do different things, and that the things Side A does gives the ability for Side B to do theirs. In other words Side B could never get this many points if Side A did not do theirs.
Dumb example of the opposite - if the whole of the Democratic party starts today campaigning on Meducare for All, No aid to Israel, Withdraw from Iran, impeach Trump and Co and throw them in jail, they’ll win both chambers and if they follow through, this fascist wave will be halted within months. By not doing that, they allow fascism to continue killing, maiming and jailing people. This is what Side A is doing. It’s not the same as B, but B cannot win without A.
Oh please speak publicly abt this Doug. Let’s see how such a real galvanizing issue works out for you.
“Gas turbines, it is!”