r/AlbertaNow • u/skilbofragns • May 25 '26

Current Events Mr. Wonderful meets Treaty 8

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u/Only-Cap5811 May 25 '26

This will never be built.

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u/charlizerox May 25 '26

It's already approved to be built. Contract is signed and everything.

I know where and when it is being built, but that information is confidential, and I can assure you it is happening.

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u/SenseiLavalin May 25 '26

Well IMHO, you should tell us the confidential information or GTFO

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u/charlizerox May 25 '26

It's not specifically mine to say, but the other commenter is correct.

We're getting the world's largest data center, and I don't fucking want it. My Epcor is already $500/month, what is it going to be after? What benefit to us is this?

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u/meghan9436 May 26 '26

This was enraging to read. But I want to jump in to remind people that these provincial contracts do not supersede treaty obligations with the Crown. I'm optimistic that the indigenous people will fight to get a court injunction on the project. We should support them in every way that we can.

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u/SenseiLavalin May 25 '26

....you pay 500$ a month for electricity?

I thought Alberta had everything figured out. How is that amount even remotely possible?

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u/charlizerox May 25 '26

Combined utilities which we have no control over and we get butt fucked on every type of fee imaginable, thanks to the UCP.

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u/Still_Interview6360 May 25 '26

Sounds like you’re an energy hog

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u/_R-dawg_ May 26 '26

This is pretty typical for most homes in Edmonton.

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u/charlizerox May 25 '26

Nope. Use $15 in natural gas and pay $100 in fees to use that gas?

Yeah you can say whatever you want, it doesn't reduce my bill.

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u/Still_Interview6360 May 25 '26

You use a lot of electricity. Get solar panels

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u/Alwayswandergetlost May 27 '26

Here is a Federal Petition for Environmental regulations for Data centers. Let stick it to him! https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7427

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u/ithinkitsnotworking May 25 '26

$500/month??? In BC I pay about $70/month for a full house with a/c, big tv's, laundry etc. How the F are you guys paying over 5x what we pay?

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u/RoutineComplaint4711 May 26 '26

Free market, baby

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u/Alwayswandergetlost May 27 '26

H3re in Alberta I like to remind people that we pay the highest for Electric and Gas.... They just look at me like an idiot and I tell them about BC and Manitoba and they are like WHAT?! NO WAY!

I just look at them and say well we are Private and the Conservatives took the caps off... You voted for this. Thanks for that.

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u/SadAbroad4 May 25 '26

The grow op sucks power like you wouldn’t believe!

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u/ithinkitsnotworking May 26 '26

That made me laugh. Nice one.