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@nicktsergas.caAnd ourselves.
Nick Tsergas
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@nicktsergas.ca@nicktsergas.caIn Alberta and Quebec they make you pay to get it, and everyone goes nuts. In Ontario, no one can get it Silence.
@nicktsergas.caIt's unacceptable that six years in we are still doing this. Evidence strongly supports a summer rollout, not a vaccine campaign after everyone has already been infected. We do not approach other viruses this way and there are very good reasons why. 3/3
@nicktsergas.caKids have been in school for a month, mine home sick all week. It's the latest round of covid, for which neither they nor me have an updated vaccination for. Nor does my wife, who works in a hospital. Not high-risk enough apparently. So now we must once again raw-dog the novel pathogen. 2/3
@nicktsergas.caBefore becoming captivated by a certain tech-governance issue I wrote stuff. This piece is making the rounds again and it's worth resurfacing now. 1/3
@mark-ungrin.bsky.socialReposted by @nicktsergas.caOne more reason not to want a giant data center next door to your house (and while so far this is limited to a war zone, wait until competing AIs start drone-sniping each other to gain a few milliseconds of advantage during a bot-war).
@nicktsergas.caDatacentre fights are increasingly about more than datacentres
@nicktsergas.ca...Origin.
@nicktsergas.caPraying away the climate-collapse
@nicktsergas.caHappening tomorrow in #ptbo
@nicktsergas.caPlease see above, @maureenwilson.bsky.social, @tammyhwang.bsky.social, @voteloomis.bsky.social, @craigcassar.bsky.social
@nicktsergas.caThis is what we've warned municipal councils about across the country.
A developer can say they're building one thing, but legislatively there is nothing to stop them from building a very different thing.
That's the whole banana.
Thank you once again @its.small.patatas.ca for reporting this.
@nicktsergas.caLast week Sask. Premier Scott Moe announced the contentious 300MW AI datacentre going up outside of Regina is actually going to be 1,200MW.
In #HamOnt, newly-obtained documents show Slate Asset Management has been planning for 800MW of datacentre capacity "at full scale."
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@nicktsergas.caReposted by @nicktsergas.caOntario is still writing its rules for datacentres.
But Ford's pitchdeck for foreign investors explicitly markets Hamilton’s waterfront for deregulated AI datacentre development, including "sovereign" AI opportunities."
Sovereign AI.
Built for foreign investors.
With no rules.
@nicktsergas.caCORRECT link:
hamilton.stopthedatacentre.ca/motion
@nicktsergas.caTough to hit those local emission targets once this kicks off. Are you happy for Council to comply as Ford drags us in the wrong direction? Or would you rather the City fought for itself, and for all of us? @lyndalukasik.bsky.social @environmenthamont.bsky.social @maureenwilson.bsky.social
@nicktsergas.caIf you're in #HamOnt, know that Council still has options and can still stop this.
Will they?
@tammyhwang.bsky.social @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social @craigcassar.bsky.social
There is still time.
@nicktsergas.caI believe former