Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources
Carney also said he will ask the MPO to help with the development of a "Canadian Sovereign Cloud" that would build data centres and computing capacity in a way that ensures the country's competitiveness and digital sovereignty.
Alright, this is interesting. I doubt this would be undertaken by a crown corporation. I suspect it would be someone's private corp instead. If somehow it turns out to be a public op, I'd likely sign up to work on it.
I wonder if we could just build out that infra and trade or sell the know-how or tech to other countries. I’m sure a lot of countries out there are pretty darn interested in replacing AWS. Displacing them would be hard, cause it takes a lot of money, and so years, to procure all that hardware, but it’d already be a big win if people would even consider hosting their business sites or apps outside of AWS/Azure/GCP.
One of the main seeking points of those services, however, is that it’s easy for software businesses to expand to different geographical locations by just deploying the same thing they build to the new environment, and that’s an enormous barrier for cloud providers, easily separating the smaller fishes from the big ones. Being able to share that tech with friendlier countries or countries with sufficiently cordial relations, would make it easier for businesses to do that.
Of course we could. The process is the same as it's been so far - producing open source software. There's already open source starting points like OpenStack, OpenShift, K8S, etc. Low cost can make up for the lack of features or polish. Lot's of people and businesses don't need most AWS has to offer but some of the basics.
Nation-building but world-ending. That's quite a shortsighted strategy to promote 3 high-pollution projects (LNG and 2 mines) and no green projects (nuclear is technically zero-emission but it's still producing dangerous waste). Even including the second wave projects there's still more environmental destruction than protection.
There's a multi-GW wind project for Atlantic Canada.
There's no escape from mining. Copper is required for almost everything electric.
Are any of them high speed train?
Nope. Frustrating that the train is what made Canada a nation, and now it's ignored. While I'd love to see a high speed train coast to coast, is take Toronto to Quebec city. (Something which wouldn't benefit me on the west coast)
Project list:
- Phase two of LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., doubling its production of liquefied natural gas. - The Darlington New Nuclear Project in Clarington, Ont., which will make small modular reactors. - Contrecœur Terminal Container Project to expand the Port of Montreal. - The McIlvenna Bay Foran Copper Mine Project in Saskatchewan. - The expansion of the Red Chris Mine in northwestern B.C.Edit: it's listed in the Phase 2 project, since it's less developed
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oops, that teaches me to read part of the article, and not the whole article!
Thanks!
Carbon capture. What a fuckin joke. At this point I'm expecting all-weather roads to be solar freakin' roadways or equally as delusional.
The Alto project is on the "secondary" list of projects that are likely next.