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Dan Shannon Craftsperson, artist ... journalist too I guess? writing about data centre stuff: blundervalley.ca #HamOnt Signal: @smallpatatas.01
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots. Amazing investigative work by @nationalobserver.com's @rorywh.bsky.social. Please read: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
nationalobserver.com
I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.
mathematicians in formation! Fields Medalists: "The goals of the AI companies+the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned, part of broader alignment issues impacting other scientific+creative professions, as well as the whole of society." mathandai.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
mathandai.org
Related, since nearly all of the proposals for US-owned hyperscale datacentres in Alberta would be on-site gas powered: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...
Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
nationalobserver.com
patatas@its.small.patatas.ca · last wk.New on Blunder Valley: Canada's AI data centre push isn't about sovereignty, and the feds know it blundervalley.ca/blog/the-fak...
#HamOnt the HCE motion is in the press now. Time to pressure Council, this could stop at least one of the data centres www.thespec.com/news/council...
New motion to pause data centres released by activist group
New motion comes over a month after city council rejected a widely-popular moratorium bylaw — and just weeks before councillors face voters in the October election.
thespec.com
A data centre developer was investigated due to allegations of unregistered lobbying. They were cleared of wrongdoing, but the report seems MIGHTY FISHY #HamOnt blundervalley.ca/blog/drac-lo...
Questions swirl around Hamilton data centre lobbying investigation
DRAC CEO Michael Schull is cleared of wrongdoing. Blunder Valley dives into the Lobbyist Registrar's report
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A data centre developer was investigated due to allegations of unregistered lobbying. They were cleared of wrongdoing, but the report seems MIGHTY FISHY #HamOnt blundervalley.ca/blog/drac-lo...
Questions swirl around Hamilton data centre lobbying investigation
DRAC CEO Michael Schull is cleared of wrongdoing. Blunder Valley dives into the Lobbyist Registrar's report
blundervalley.ca
#HamOnt the HCE motion is in the press now. Time to pressure Council, this could stop at least one of the data centres www.thespec.com/news/council...
New motion to pause data centres released by activist group
New motion comes over a month after city council rejected a widely-popular moratorium bylaw — and just weeks before councillors face voters in the October election.
thespec.com
Ypsilanti township in Michigan killed a data centre by cutting off the water. Anyway, #HamOnt could do something kinda similar 👀 hamilton.stopthedatacentre.ca/motion
HCE draft motion · Stop the Datacentre
Hamilton City Council shareholder powers over Hamilton Community Energy — draft motion and supporting documents.
hamilton.stopthedatacentre.ca
Ypsilanti township in Michigan killed a data centre by cutting off the water. Anyway, #HamOnt could do something kinda similar 👀 hamilton.stopthedatacentre.ca/motion
HCE draft motion · Stop the Datacentre
Hamilton City Council shareholder powers over Hamilton Community Energy — draft motion and supporting documents.
hamilton.stopthedatacentre.ca
[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time
New on Blunder Valley: Canada's AI data centre push isn't about sovereignty, and the feds know it blundervalley.ca/blog/the-fak...
Canada's AI data centre push isn't about sovereignty, and the feds know it
While the Canadian government talks tough on U.S. relations, our dependence on U.S. tech giants grows
blundervalley.ca
This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing.
Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · last wk.Environmental groups say there’s a reason why the federal government quietly released its latest climate report, which finds that average temperatures in Canada are set to go up by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century.
Ok not permanent yet — but extended for another 5 months. Man, our environmentalist PM keeps doing favours for O&G, so weird www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Federal government will extend gas tax holiday into 2027 | CBC News
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the Liberal government is extending the federal excise tax holiday on gasoline and diesel until Jan. 31, 2027.
cbc.ca
patatas@its.small.patatas.ca · 5mo ago$5 says Carney will eventually make the gas tax cuts permanent. Any takers? #CdnPoli
Another government agrees that rules are needed for AI datacentres — a new type of facility which did not exist in Canada five years ago.. And that government releases a set of voluntary principals signed off on by Big Tech.
OpenAI, Anthropic sign on to Canada’s new data centre framework as public opinion sours on buildout | BetaKit
Big players agree not to shift electricity costs to consumers and minimize water use when building their data centres.
betakit.com
patatas@its.small.patatas.ca · 2w agoone of my favourite pieces of Canadian tech regulation trivia is that Palantir signed the feds' non-binding "commitment to support the Government of Canada's effort in leading the way on ethical AI" Lockheed-Martin is listed as "not yet" a signatory. For shame! www.canada.ca/en/governmen...
one of my favourite pieces of Canadian tech regulation trivia is that Palantir signed the feds' non-binding "commitment to support the Government of Canada's effort in leading the way on ethical AI" Lockheed-Martin is listed as "not yet" a signatory. For shame! www.canada.ca/en/governmen...
List of interested Artificial Intelligence (AI) suppliers - Canada.ca
canada.ca
Fine, I condemn Bong Bong the Clown. I find his japes perfunctory. His balloon animals strike me as vulgar. The bursts of laughter he evokes from children ring hollow to my ears. Now can we please get this city council meeting back on track
"The scale of the proposal is outlandish — only a handful of existing data centres are a twentieth of its supposed size — so the pitch has always seemed like it's aimed more toward producing a reaction than a built product." #CdnPoli #BlunderValley blundervalley.ca/blog/the-won...
The Wonder Valley Files, Part 2: Dinosaurs, past and present
Turning a critical eye toward AI data centres in Canada
blundervalley.ca
"The scale of the proposal is outlandish — only a handful of existing data centres are a twentieth of its supposed size — so the pitch has always seemed like it's aimed more toward producing a reaction than a built product." #CdnPoli #BlunderValley blundervalley.ca/blog/the-won...
The Wonder Valley Files, Part 2: Dinosaurs, past and present
Turning a critical eye toward AI data centres in Canada
blundervalley.ca
Happy anniversary to finding whatever the fuck this vehicle was
Reminds me of Carney lol: “The playbook of AI data centre proponents follows the familiar pattern of any good high-pressure sales pitch: make a lot of claims that municipalities are under-equipped to verify, while instilling a sense of urgency around the project.”
patatas@its.small.patatas.ca · 3w agoOp-ed from ya bois AI data centres face waves of municipal resistance — for good reason www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/08/21/o... @nicktsergas.ca #CdnPoli