720 Beatty St | Steam Plant + ??? | U/C - Page 13

WarrenC12 · #**241** Posted **Feb 13, 2026, 4:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by csbvan

I get the practicality of it. But a giant blank building next to the stadium plaza just doesnt work.

Is there a render of it?

madog222 · #**242** Posted **Feb 13, 2026, 4:52 PM**

This is the render, it may or may not be current.

Nothing has been submitted to the city or publicly released by the developer. Everything is currently speculation, including the Daily Hive article, based on this concept below.

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Here's the design for 'Geo' on the ALign Architecture website. (Residential, Hotel, Retail, Data Center, Energy Center).

WarrenC12 · #**243** Posted **Feb 13, 2026, 5:10 PM**

Thanks, that looks ok from the street level. If the "datacenter" portion is at the Expo street level below, that would be fine IMO.

csbvan · #**244** Posted **Feb 13, 2026, 6:30 PM**

I believe that is the earlier version which was hotel + data centre. The new version may be only data centre, and thus would likely have a less friendly ground level.

jollyburger · #**245** Posted **Feb 13, 2026, 10:39 PM**

I think the data centre is the dark building that would be where the surface parkade is located (?)

officedweller · #**246** Posted **Feb 14, 2026, 2:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by csbvan

I get the practicality of it. But a giant blank building next to the stadium plaza just doesnt work.

It works for a podium, because it boosts the potential light pollution-complainers above the level of the Northern Lights Display at BC Place.
There would still be retail at grade and one story said that weird circular restaurant pavilion is still being built.

seamusmcduff · #**247** Posted **Feb 19, 2026, 11:14 PM**

Interesting video on the effects of data center infrasound on quality of life and human comfort.

It seems like it could potentially be extremely problematic to construct a data center in one of the densest location in the country

https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?si=mvJBfhOosKrZwSGI

jollyburger · #**248** Posted **Feb 19, 2026, 11:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by seamusmcduff

Interesting video on the effects of data center infrasound on quality of life and human comfort.

It seems like it could potentially be extremely problematic to construct a data center in one of the densest location in the country

Those data centres are like close to 1,000,000 square feet of square foot of space that needs to be cooled. I assume this would be tiny in comparison. And some of the examples like xAI's data center isn't most of the noise generated from the mobile gas turbines?