When we were kids, there was a field near us that we played in. A large part of our lives was lived in that field. One day we heard rumors of the field being turned into a subdivision, houses, roads, the works. A week later the first survey stakes appeared. We went to work. They put them in, we took them out. It stayed our field until we all started getting old enough to move out of the neighborhood. We were just kids, and we shut their shit down.

It's overwhelming, but we're not powerless. The best time to start organizing your community against this stuff was 15 years ago. The second best time is now. We're a lot more powerful together.

Considering the scale of the Natural Gas Facility alone is going to be enormous and the long term outlook is based entirely on a "Trust me bro" from the tech industry, this just feels absurd.

This is fucking funny

Alberta electricity mix:

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/provincial-territorial-energy-profiles/provincial-territorial-energy-profiles-alberta.html

Figure 1: Electricity generation by Fuel Type (2021)

I assume principally with natural gas.

EDIT: And upon me actually reading the article, that does seem to be the case:

The natural gas facility, proposed by Synapse Data Centre Inc., will produce 1.4 gigawatts of energy each day, solely to power what could become the largest artificial intelligence (AI) data centre in the county.

EDIT2: I was wondering if they could use waste heat from the power plant to do district heating, but while it looks like Olds, Alberta is pretty compact, looking at it in Google Earth, it also looks like it's mostly low-density single-family homes and that the town's surrounded by farmland. I don't know if it'd be economical to do so; district heating makes more sense in higher-density areas.

Downtown Calgary is somewhat built-up, but that's a good 85 km away from Olds.

With a newly built, 1.2GW devoted natural gas power plant, IIRC.

Edit: 1.4GW per the article.