Regina Construction IV

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by gecho111

The initial pitch went from being conveniently located to a substation, to SaskEnergy building a high pressure natural gas line to the site for them to run their own power plant.

It is my understanding that they will run off the SaskPower grid at least initially but the back-up/supplemental generators will run off TransGas gas. I assume this will like Interpro Steel deal with SaskPower, their electricity can be throttled by SaskPower when there is a system shortage or outage. Bell will then replace or supplement the grid power with their own generation.

I suspect they would eventually look at their own utility-scale gas-fired generating station, but that would take years to plan and build.

[gecho111]

Did another hyperlapse with the drone this morning at the LTC site. It was supposed to keep the crane centered but I didn't notice the tracking target disappeared before I hit record. I think in many situations speeding up a video is a more flexible option. Just parking it in one spot and letting it record for 25 minutes also makes it easier to focus on the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LEYbsf6qk

Doing rebar for first section of second floor.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by gecho111

Did another hyperlapse with the drone this morning at the LTC site. It was supposed to keep the crane centered but I didn't notice the tracking target disappeared before I hit record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LEYbsf6qk

Still pretty cool.

[gecho111]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Still pretty cool.

The hardest part is standing around for over 15 minutes while it does its thing.

[The mayor]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/article/he...-will-power-bell-canadas-ai-data-centre-

Saskatchewan’s Minister of Crown Investments Corporation Jeremy Harrison has said the power needed for the project is readily available, adding the province is in a prime position to take on a development of this scale.

“We are really in a unique position to actually [be able to] allocate power for projects, whether it be uranium mines ... or whether it be a new potash mine, whether it be a copper mine, we are in that unique position to be able to partner with Bell on a project like this,” he said.

Both SaskEnergy and SaskPower have issued statements outlining how the data centre will be supplied with power.

According to SaskEnergy, the corporation is developing natural gas infrastructure to serve “Bell’s onsite gas-fired power generation” through its subsidiary, TransGas Limited.


The work includes building a new high-pressure pipeline and a high-volume metre station.

SaskPower has said its current generation capacity will be able to support the first 200 megawatts of the construction - which is slated to be completed by the end of the year

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by gecho111

Did another hyperlapse with the drone this morning at the LTC site. It was supposed to keep the crane centered but I didn't notice the tracking target disappeared before I hit record. I think in many situations speeding up a video is a more flexible option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LEYbsf6qk

Doing rebar for first section of second floor.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

YouTube video is amazing. It’s gonna be awesome watching this thing go up.

[TannerF]

Reeve and half of RM of Sherwood Council resigned. A member of RM council who lives next door to the Bell data center stays, but others leave for an undisclosed reason.

https://rmofsherwood.ca/rm-of-sherwood-n...-resignations-and-governance-continuity/
https://rmofsherwood.ca/council/council-directory/

[The mayor]

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/building-slo...crisis-milton-friesen-for-inside-policy/
Building slower, paying more – What Regina reveals about Canada’s housing crisis: Milton Friesen for Inside Policy
Across the country, countless other communities are facing the same challenges. And they all stand to benefit from finding effective and efficient solutions.

To understand how these forces play out on the ground, this article uses Regina as a specific example of what is common across the country. The Saskatchewan capital may not face the extreme land constraints of Canada’s largest cities, but its construction sector illustrates many of the same productivity pressures shaping housing markets from coast to coast to coast.

By looking closely at Regina’s experience, including its challenges, constraints, and emerging solutions, we can see more clearly what Canada must do to build more homes, faster and more efficiently.

Great read

[gecho111]

I took a short video at the LTC to see what it would look like sped up. At the same time I tested the digital 2x zoom. The zoom is pretty good, actually looks better from a photo taken from the same spot zoomed into the same level. I think its some processing trickery using the quad bayer sensor which normally has multiple sensor pixels for each stored pixel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgLX7IS5HU

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by gecho111

I took a short video at the LTC to see what it would look like sped up. At the same time I tested the digital 2x zoom. The zoom is pretty good, actually looks better from a photo taken from the same spot zoomed into the same level. I think its some processing trickery using the quad bayer sensor which normally has multiple sensor pixels for each stored pixel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgLX7IS5HU

You’re gonna be busy this summer with the new pool the long-term care facility Costco did I leave anything out?
Oh yes the one . seven billion dollar data center. I’m sure they’ll be spinoff jobs with this

[The mayor]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-economic-development-analysis-9.7133875
How an AI data centre may be the big, energy-thirsty fish that got away from Manitoba

Time will tell whether Wab Kinew's NDP government will envy Saskatchewan for landing $1.7B Bell Canada project


Bartley Kives · CBC News · Posted: Mar 21, 2026 4:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
Bell Canada said it has deals with SaskPower and SaskEnergy subsidiary TransGas Limited to provide this electricity, meaning the data centre will run partly on natural gas.

"This is one of the few provinces where we do have available power to build, at scale, the data sovereignty that we very much require as Canadians," Moe said Monday.

That statement should perk up the ears of Manitobans who've listened closely to Premier Wab Kinew for the past few months.

In October, when Kinew unveiled an AI strategy for this province, he said Manitoba must be a leader in ensuring Canadian data is controlled and stored in Canadian jurisdictions, and subject to Canadian rules governing the way it can be accessed.

"You'll see servers and data centres in Manitoba in the future," Kinew told reporters after that announcement.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew endorses call for servers, data centres to be built in province
Kinew made that statement four weeks after he met with Bell Canada CEO Mirko Bibic and other company officials to discuss "AI in Manitoba," according to the provincial lobbyist registry.

The premier was asked directly what he discussed with Bell Canada officials in that meeting.

"I don’t know if we have any news to share on that today, but I'd encourage you all to check out the state of the province address this December," Kinew said on Oct. 27.
Very interesting

[gecho111]

Originally Posted by The mayor

You’re gonna be busy this summer with the new pool the long-term care facility Costco did I leave anything out?
Oh yes the one . seven billion dollar data center. I’m sure they’ll be spinoff jobs with this

I should see about getting the advanced drone license so I can legally start using the high capacity batteries which push the weight of the drone over the micro drone limit. That would increase the loiter time to around 43 minutes from 27 for longer time lapses. Can't fly a drone over 250 grams anywhere in the city without an advance license except for a tiny section east of Prince of Wales. The advance license requires a flight test which is the biggest cost.


I got the first step of the advanced license completed on Tuesday, passing the online test. It can be challenging as there are a lot of general aviation questions totally unrelated to drones. You can google stuff and refer to study materials but the time limit forces you to know the easier stuff so you can spend more time on obscure questions. For the in person flight review you are expected to conduct drone operations in a specific way, with advance site surveys, checklist procedures, fly the drone by looking at it instead of the screen. So I need to study / practice that before booking a flight review. Although it would be helpful to have a drone with an optical zoom camera, I'll always keep a micro class drone for the lack of flight pre-authorization and reporting requirements.

[gecho111]

That one building in Skyview is very long.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by gecho111

That one building in Skyview is very long.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

Thank you that is one massive rental apartments

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by gecho111

Did another hyperlapse with the drone this morning at the LTC site. It was supposed to keep the crane centered but I didn't notice the tracking target disappeared before I hit record. I think in many situations speeding up a video is a more flexible option. Just parking it in one spot and letting it record for 25 minutes also makes it easier to focus on the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LEYbsf6qk

Doing rebar for first section of second floor.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

In some provinces there halted construction on projects like these , this project is massive

[gecho111]

West Oak announced a project on 20th Ave in Douglas Park where the nimbys ran off the previous project. 4 floors without the penthouse the previous proposal had. https://www.instagram.com/p/DWSBA0elCJl/?img_index=3

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by gecho111

West Oak announced a project on 20th Ave in Douglas Park where the nimbys ran off the previous project. 4 floors without the penthouse the previous proposal had. https://www.instagram.com/p/DWSBA0elCJl/?img_index=3

I thought six stories was allowed , the nimbys are lunatic's , good on you for posting nice looking apartments

[The mayor]

https://youtu.be/ofdV0ZFI4jM?si=NSuYLJ9jm-qxWCuW
Regina will be the epic centre of AI in Canada and so many other things related to this very interesting video

[Crisis]

Originally Posted by The mayor

https://youtu.be/ofdV0ZFI4jM?si=NSuYLJ9jm-qxWCuW
Regina will be the epic centre of AI in Canada

That's simply hyperbole. Alberta has several very large data centres in the works. One near Edmonton has construction value of nearly $15 billion. The Regina data centre is great, but doesn't make it the centre of AI in Canada.

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by Crisis

That's simply hyperbole. Alberta has several very large data centres in the works. One near Edmonton has construction value of nearly $15 billion. The Regina data centre is great, but doesn't make it the centre of AI in Canada.

https ://ca.news.yahoo.com/alberta-facing-power-problem-comes-011314442.html
Alberta facing a power problem when it comes to AI data centres
CBC
Fri, November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM PST
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There's no more power for AI data centres in Alberta. At least, for now. The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) has a temporary cap of 1,200 megawatts for large-load projects and says it has already allocated all of its capacity to a pair of data centre projects slated for near Edmonton. But the province is pressing ahead with a bring-your-own-power solution.