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Majority of Canadians oppose government support for AI data centres, poll shows (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

That's already solved by only approving a specific amount of AI datacenter capacity per year, based on how the grid can be grown. BC is already doing this.

It's not a reason to prevent AI datacenters entirely it's just a reason to regulate them properly. If your government won't regulate them, and you don't change your government, then it doesn't really matter anyways.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    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.

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