points by Jemm 2 days ago | 0 comments
Canada desperately needs infrastructure, yet I am not convinced that electricity grid should be the main focus. It concerns me that this smells of data centres.
[–] snapplebobapple 2 days ago
Data centers are great and this concern over them is insane though.You should be more concerned about how the government is going to waste your money here, because they will, because they have for decades now and inefficient meddling is worse than effective meddling in most cases. For example, the bulk of this appears to be going into the clean electricity investment tax credit, which is a 15% refund on eligible capital costs that has some questionable requirements (like abiding by dumb prevailing wage laws rather than focusing on the correct thing, getting the project done well for as little expense as possible).
[–] cyanydeez 2 days ago
if you ignore all the cultural misuse of data centers, sure, they're benign in and of themselves.
But that's a big ignorance you have to hurdle over.
[–] snapplebobapple 2 days ago
cultural misuse is code for "I don't like it because it might make something I like to do unprofitable, so I'm going to trick myself into a more palatable reason for hating this than that I am lazy and am afraid of change." Go read some history. Every time something begins to happen that changes the labour market so entrenched interests lose power and things get a lot more efficient you guys come out of the wood work and start moaning about "cultural misuse" or "inauthenticity". Basically insert nonsense here so that the person spouting the nonsense can keep lying to themselves about their real reasons for not wanting something.
[–] randysalami 2 days ago