Meta's CA$13Bnew data center in Sturgeon County is a massive win for Alberta, —helping it become a serious global player in AI, while creating 3,000 construction jobs, 300 permanent positions and up to 6% lower electricity bills for residents. The facility runswill also run on 100% clean energy, usesuse zero water in its cooling system and pumpspump CA$60M into local roads and infrastructure. Alberta just became a serious global player in AI.
Massive data centers bring 24/7 noise, local heat and enormous energy and water demand that strainsstrain gridslocal infrastructure and propsprop up fossil fuels. —Data Bigcenters Tech'sin renewablethe pledges don't hold up under scrutinyU.S. Dataalready Centershow Alley in Virginia shows exactly where this road leads: coal and gas dependence deepening while communities bear the costs. Alberta deserves better than becomingto become the next sacrifice zone for Silicon Valley's AI ambitions.
There is a 24% chance that data centres will consume more than 10% of global electricity usage by 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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