150 W Georgia (Steam Plant + Data Centre) | 10fl | U/C

[jrdtown]

The protesters' arguments might be correct or not, the true issue with using this space for a datacenter is its huge opportunity cost. The public infrastructure such as skytrain, buses, schools, roads, sidewalks, streetlamps, grocery stores, parks already exist within the immediate vicinity - using all of it to house computers, which could be placed literally anywhere else, will only reduce the existing infrastructure's ROI and will create costs somewhere else in the long run. There is no way that claimed benefit from reusing heat can be comparable. If additionally subsidized by taxpayers dollar, this will be mismanagement.