Feds fordern Vorschläge zum Bau großer Rechenzentren in Kanada
Feds call for proposals to build large-scale data centres in Canada
Feds fordern Vorschläge zum Bau großer Rechenzentren in Kanada
Feds call for proposals to build large-scale data centres in Canada
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In the 21st century, data is power and Canada’s sovereignty includes data sovereignty as well.
That’s a good step to become less dependent (and literally at the mercy of the mood) of those governing South of the border). It’s also intelligent to have data centres located in area using less carbon-intensive source of electricity.
Because who doesn’t love raising the price of electricity prices for average Canadians right? Such a shame our government is sponsoring degeneracy
Data centres for cloud storage, compute and gen AI are basically critical infrastructure.
I fully support building them but they need to be owned by the public. These types of natural monopolies either need to be heavily regulated and taxed to ensure they act in thr public benefit, or the profits need to be fully making their way to the public purse via ownership.
It could be a worthwhile policy, but my heart genuinely bleads for consumers wanting to buy high end gaming PCs since this likely put even more short term pressure on Canadian PC users that want to upgrade etc. (I was fortunate enough to find a good deal for ultra gaming PC setup with 96GB DDR5 RAM the day that Micron made the announcement about prioritizing AI data centers etc., but I think that’s increasingly unlikely for people for the next couple of years as the AI bubble continues to expand)
Canada absolutely needs its own data centres. This has been needed for 10+ years. Now, that’s not to say we need 1 in each province, but as a country, we absolutely need to have our data onshore.
We have dozens of data centres in this country already. Probably closer to 100s.
Back in early 2000s there was a glut of them and multiple went bankrupt. Just vast spaces with lots of hydro capacity. I did a calculation at the time that estimated the capacity in the GTA alone would let everybody have a dedicated 2U server or more. And that was only considering tier 1 capacity already built.
If you’re in Toronto and want to see a data centre, the TPS garage in Liberty Village (you can see it from the Go Train) was the 360 Networks data centre prior to that company’s bankruptcy.
Don’t let the title fool you. This isn’t a real plan to build AI infrastructure. The government isn’t putting up money or guaranteeing anything. It’s just asking companies for ideas and offering vague, non-binding agreements so it can look like it’s doing something. “Sovereignty” isn’t clearly defined, power and permits are still major problems, and there are no firm rules. Without real funding or commitments, this is mostly political messaging, not a serious effort to build Canada’s own AI capacity.