Hipperson: This gives us chance to hire & train people. City of Regina needs b/c you have an extensive capital budget you want to act on. #yqrcc

Hipperson: The socioeconomic value of projects like this are huge. But we have a problem in that we can't create a pipeline for workers into our industry. This provides opportunity for that due to the scale. This gives us chance to hire & train people. #yqrcc

Hipperson: This has also provided opportunities for local engineering firms providing quality control services. There are a myriad of impacts from equipment rental, restaurants, hotels. I recently ordered food for 150 people from Western Pizza. #yqrcc

Hipperson is running through the steel, piling, concrete & other inputs that subcontractors are supplying. #yqrcc

Hipperson: We've recently hired 2 new engineering graduates, one from UofR, one from UofS. #yqrcc

Hipperson: Our trade partners are employing 245 workers on the site, 26% are from Regina, 36% from SK, & 38% from out of province. Before this job, we had a workforce of 120. Today we're closer to 160. #yqrcc

Gordon Hipperson from Hipperson Construction is speaking. He'd already started when the live feed kicked back in again. #yqrcc

it was painful to watch. This is exactly what comes to me now, watching this. We are f%,ked #yqrcc

Hey… so… The other stuff on the council agenda… did that all pass on the consent agenda or did they put it off to another meeting or what? #yqrcc

Council taking a 5 minute recess. Back at 3:51. #yqrcc

Zachidniak: So environmental impacts are outside your area of expertise?
Hueck: Yes.
Z: OK. #yqrcc

Zachidniak: You haven't talked on negative environment impacts of natural gas burning. Do you have expertise on that?
Hueck: On burning fossil fuels, from environmental compliance perspective, that was not my area of experience. I worked in energy planning, reliability & cost. #yqrcc

The response keeps coming back to "it's not our job." That isn't a plan, it's a brush-off. These are the people residents count on to hold the line. #yqrcc

Watching Regina city council on the AI data centre issue, one thing is painfully obvious: most councillors don't seem to have the expertise to weigh this. Not on AI, not on energy, not on data centres, not on environmental concerns. #yqrcc #skpoli

Dan Rashovich admitting during Council today that he literally just, while a delegate was speaking, googled how data centers use water.

HE WAITED UNTIL THE MEETING ABOUT THE DATA CENTER TO GOOGLE HOW THEY USE WATER.

Ward 2, please elect someone who actually wants to be there in two years. #YQRcc

"we have world class wind here"
could be Saskatchewan's slogan ffs #yqrcc

Froh (who, as deputy mayor, is chairing this meeting as the mayor is away) rules the delegate can ask if he wants.

Hueck: I'm an advocate for renewables. I've learned we have world class wind here. And best solar resource in Canada. The utility has opened those opportunities up to industry. #yqrcc

Bezo points out that Turnbull is asking about provincial regulations that the delegation has self declared he has no expertise in. #yqrcc

And the Bell AI Hyperscale Data Centre that Bell Canada is building here in the RM of Sherwood is pre-leased by two US tech companies, Cerebras & Coreweave. These two companies have clients like the US Dept of War. How does that benefit us? #yqrcc

Turnbull: I want to ask about ambient air quality standards, the Sk limit is 160ppb (nitrogen dioxide). In the US it's 100. Canada target is 42. How does that effect emission levels when ours are so different? #yqrcc