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Originally Posted by J.OT13
That's a good point. Data sovereignty is kind of a myth when you think about it.
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Originally Posted by urbanforest
Data sovereignty isn’t even a factor when it’s an American company like Amazon building data centres. We have no control over what happens to data on American-owned servers in Canada.
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This is not true.
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Originally Posted by J.OT13
This is insane. We can't just allow data centres to set-up without making these companies build power generation infra for themselves or provide capital for local power companies to build up their own supply.
I get the whole data sovereignty argument, but maintaining a reliable power grid is pretty important too.
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Originally Posted by urbanforest
Agree that it’s absurd for Hydro Ottawa to be bending over backwards for this.
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Why? It's business for them. And they are racking and stacking connection requests like they would for any large industrial user.
The problems here are:
1) Complacency from a long period of time where demand didn't grow.
2) Under investment and revenue extraction by the city. Why the heck is Hydro Ottawa paying a dividend when they need the cash to grow?
Also, in the particular case of Ottawa, so much of the data centre growth here is tied to government and defence use. Every other thread, y'all want to talk about how the feds aren't delivering for Ottawa. And yet here want to deny the infrastructure growth that is considered basic infrastructure going forward? Y'all keep piling up reasons for the federal government and supporting industries to divert investment. Don't be surprised when you get exactly what you keep advocating for.
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