Scot Purdon

[ema2 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 @emayeg2]

@TheBreakdownAB Another hideous #UCP plan rolled out by the useless @DaleNally_AB. Can anyone image what will happen with his gambling gamble also?? He's promoting it like it's a secure thing. 🤡
#ableg #MorinvilleStAlbert call your idiot home.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

From the DM’s/Reddit…

Looks like the new Alberta Healthcare rollout is going just as smoothly as the ADAP rollout.

Danielle Smith likes to say that the UCP can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Sure doesn’t look that way…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Scot Purdon @Scot_Purdon]

@waitmaya 31

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Turn your sound on for this one. This is what it sounds like to live next to an AI data center, 24 hours a day. In Dowagiac, Michigan, residents sued after a facility run by Hyperscale Data ran around the clock at 78 decibels outside their homes. The company offered to buy their houses rather than fix the noise. One family has lived on that street for nearly a century.

My Take
This isn't one town with one bad facility. Microsoft faces a class-action in Wisconsin over data center noise residents can hear a mile and a half from the property line. In Virginia, one-third of data centers sit within 200 feet of homes. Noise from thousands of servers can hit 96 decibels, and diesel backup generators reach 105, which is a jet overhead. Residents report headaches, nausea, and sleep problems. Property values near this kind of infrastructure drop up to 20%. The company response in Michigan was to offer to buy the homes rather than quiet the facility, homes that families spent decades in, priced against a corporate buyout.

Water in Oregon, wells in Georgia, ratepayer costs in Louisiana, river water in California, and now noise in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of this was in the brochure when these projects got approved. Closed-loop cooling and proper sound barriers exist and would solve most of this, but they cost more, so the companies skip them and the neighbors lose sleep and equity instead.

Hedgie🤗

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Alberta just approved a $13 billion Meta data centre in Sturgeon County. Here’s what they’re not telling you.

It needs a dedicated 1.4 gigawatt gas plant just to run. That’s roughly the entire daily power demand of Edmonton, for one facility.

Alberta’s grid is already 60% gas powered, nearly 5 times the national emissions intensity. Ottawa’s whole AI strategy assumed Canada’s clean grid would power this stuff. Alberta is the exception, and it’s where almost every planned data centre in the country is now landing.

Meta says it’ll fund its own power infrastructure and match usage with clean energy eventually. Pembina’s Greenlight gas plant isn’t even online until second half of 2030. So new gas gets built now, promises get made for later.

300 permanent jobs for a $13 billion investment. Compare that to what else that capital could have built.

Residents near similar projects in Olds have raised real concerns about water use, air quality and noise, with limited say before approvals move forward.

This isn’t an anti-tech take. It’s a question of who actually benefits when a province hands out energy and land for a fraction of the long term jobs a $13B investment should create.

[The Right is Wrong AF @therightiswrongaf.bsky.soci @therightswrong]

@MacFarlaneNews The case Hearn will fall apart quicker than Trump's Reflecting Pool project.

Besides, we know the pool was slashed.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

In the wake of the recent Globe & Mail article, today Nenshi again called for a public inquiry into "CorruptCare" stating...

"Alberta's would be forgiven for thinking she has something to hide".

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Diane Ellison @DianeEllison]

@TheBreakdownAB This Sam Jaber?????

[🇨🇦🌻🤔🌈 @MgtmMoisan]

@ToewsWenda Speaking of an ass, she blocked me after I posted this -

[Bob A’fette @fette_a]

Isn’t it wild how our Premier can fund her husband’s Special Interest, but makes devastating cuts to disability benefits?

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Our volunteers will soon be setting up pop-up events, just like they did with the petition. Farmers Markets are on the radar.

[Krista Jensen 🇨🇦 @shortstuffpb]

@McAllisterBruce @SPhillipsAB There have been 7 cases of voting irregularities in Alberta in the last 13 years, and only 5 of them involved an illegal (and single) vote.

The only thing that I can think of that would up the risk would be the breach of the voters list. But you weren't aware of that

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[David Shepherd @DShepYEG]

I like metaphors.

So here’s an extended one about how the UCP are attacking & undermining our public healthcare system, pushing it to the point of collapse.

The damage is deep, but it can be stopped.

An Alberta NDP government will build our healthcare system back. #ableg

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

This is horrifying.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Data centers are horrible and no one wants to live next to one. Trump seems to love them.

[Scot Purdon @Scot_Purdon]

@BulwarkOnline @BillKristol Mr

[Captain Canadian @furmsies]

When you pay your crazily inflated property taxes in Alberta this year at least you can feel comfortable in the knowledge that a huge portion of that money is going to build private schools that only the rich can afford.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

WOW!

Today Smith tried to perpetuate her spin on what duty to consult means and how it applies...

And Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was having NONE of it!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Brattani @Bratt_world]

Vassey Kapelos basically ended Danielle Smiths narrative in its place with this entire interview

she is full of shit

[Scot Purdon @Scot_Purdon]

@fwd_canada @DShepYEG MHCorrupt Care & Creapy little Micky Amery Lebanese distraction.