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"AI Growth Zone", incidentally, is the term used in the UK to describe massive government-supported AI datacentre campuses >500MW. That's what Slate wants for Hamilton's waterfront. @tammyhwang.bsky.social @craigcassar.bsky.social @voteloomis.bsky.social @maureenwilson.bsky.social #HamOnt

"AI Growth Zone", incidentally, is the term used in the UK to describe massive government-supported AI datacentre campuses >500MW. That's what Slate wants for Hamilton's waterfront. @tammyhwang.bsky.social @craigcassar.bsky.social @voteloomis.bsky.social @maureenwilson.bsky.social #HamOnt

This 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.

Last 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."

Hamilton's Mayor and several councillors deny that Slate Asset Management wants to build hyperscale datacentres. Meanwhile, documents show Slate briefed the feds on their 800MW plans. My latest: blundervalley.ca/blog/slate-8... #HamOnt @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social

As a Hamilton resident I am deeply concerned about the proposed Steelport development on Hamilton’s waterfront, particularly the proposed inclusion of large-scale AI data-centre infrastructure. #HamOnt

This photo should be the basis of a national NDP advertising campaign

Will an AI Brian Mulroney hologram be delivering a speech as well?

congrats Liberals on your hard right PM nationalpost.com/news/politic...

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...

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.

See also KillTheDC.blundervalley.ca #HamOnt

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...

#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...

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...

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...

#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...

Ypsilanti township in Michigan killed a data centre by cutting off the water. Anyway, #HamOnt could do something kinda similar 👀 hamilton.stopthedatacentre.ca/motion

Ypsilanti township in Michigan killed a data centre by cutting off the water. Anyway, #HamOnt could do something kinda similar 👀 hamilton.stopthedatacentre.ca/motion

[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...

#HamOnt needs to dream bigger and demand better www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

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.

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...

#HamOnt needs to dream bigger and demand better www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

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.

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...

Hey #HamOnt, data centres stand to get some *huge* municipal tax breaks from the City: 1/2

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 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...

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.”

According to a Senate of Canada brief, for every gallon of water used to cool US datacentres, 12.4 gallons were used to cool those datacentres’ power plants. Closed-loop can sleight-of-hand water usage away from the datacentres to the power plants. @its.small.patatas.ca @cdnaffairs.bsky.social

Op-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

Fuck, yeah!

New on Blunder Valley: I break down the Ford Government’s “Framework for a Data Centre Playbook”. Spoiler: I think it’s empty rhetoric! some bonus Hamilton-related content too. blundervalley.ca/blog/doug-fo... #OnPoli #HamOnt

based on the fact that there's both a Winklevoss twin and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse in frame, I'm guessing this is "good for Bitcoin" @molly.wiki @cascoinfoundation.org @bft.wtf

Preaching my gospel to Macleans: macleans.ca/society/tech...

Fantastic piece from @apasek.bsky.social macleans.ca/society/tech...

@nicktsergas.ca and I wrote a thing: www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

@nicktsergas.ca and I wrote a thing: www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Hamilton’s mysterious data centre reversal haunts other municipalities great piece by @cloelogan.bsky.social and @rorywh.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/04/n...

Stopping data centres: Beyond Hamilton web panel discussion this Fri 8pm ET us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Worth a watch: Stop the Datacentre | Lessons from Hamilton | July 27 Town Hall Featuring @apasek.bsky.social @nicktsergas.ca @nrindernann.bsky.social and @bhavyatta.bsky.social youtu.be/HUjQAHhFw78 #HamOnt #AIDatacentres