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Canada should build the data centres

Line illustration: low server buildings on a snowy northern horizon under a faint aurora, with a maple leaf on the nearest roof.

I watched tech stocks get hit this week, and all because there's a threat around the continuous build-out of AI data centers.

If the United States would like to not build AI data centers, I don't see why we here in Canada cannot do that for them. We have a lot of space up north. We have cooling coming from the North Pole. I don't see any reason why Canada is not going all in on investing in AI data centers at scale.

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All we need to do is facilitate the opportunity, bring over the investors, hire our workers, and develop more infrastructure so it can provide value for this new ecosystem. We also have a better value because of our dollar. I don't see why we're not taking advantage.

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I'd love to cordially invite our lovely new government, the Conservative government, as well as the BC First Nations community, who own a lot of the land too, to start providing this value to other providers.

Otherwise the US companies are going to go down to Mexico, because they can build them down there as well.

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We have the space. Let's use it.

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