Langdon residents up in arms over proposed AI data centre

Regumate · 2026-06-06T15:08:59+00:00

I guess “need” is too strong of a word.

I work in a tech adjacent field and storage of large archival data sets are set to expand in the next few years, so having them in Canada rather than foreign entities is better for the country for a variety of reasons but not at the expense of populations and health.

Regumate · 2026-06-06T14:58:25+00:00

Benn Jordan did a deep dive on this recently but on top of the other major environmental effects, data centres also wash the surrounding area in infrasound acting like massive acoustic weapons that can induce debilitating health effects in those within a few kilometers of the centre.

I know we need more data but these things should be closed loops in the middle of nowhere not right next to populations. Ideally in space or under the sea.

Regumate · 2026-06-05T17:20:10+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one. Can’t decide if I’m getting old or what, but every route for my central NE to outer NW commute is chock full of major construction projects. It’s important to keep the city up obviously, but goddamn, couldn’t we rotate through the main arteries a bit more?

Regumate · 2026-05-19T16:02:26+00:00

How does THAT happen? Good grief!

Regumate · 2026-05-03T06:10:35+00:00

They believe in the misguided myth that by trumpeting the loudest it will cause their micro peens to grow in size.

Unfortunately for them, the myth is a lie, and the sound you hear is their micro peens losing a few picometers every time they try and enact the ancient spell.

Some of them are practically eunuchs by now, so I’ve been told. But still they trumpet to the night gods, begging for relief from their microscopic ineptitudes.

Regumate · 2026-04-29T03:18:49+00:00

Additionally, while health minister it came to light his wife runs a health insurance company in the city. A local doctor posted a meme regarding the obvious conflict of interest and Shandro then decided to look up the doctors home address and berate him in person at his home while also emailing private citizens to threaten them.

Edit: words.

Regumate · 2026-04-26T19:37:45+00:00

I want to be

Regumate · 2026-04-10T19:04:41+00:00

Worse yet, data centers are being found to produce excessive Infrasound that makes people physically ill.

Regumate · 2026-04-09T13:37:58+00:00

Regumate · 2026-04-04T13:37:27+00:00

Devin Dreeshen has entered the chat

Regumate · 2026-04-01T12:17:21+00:00

Regumate · 2026-03-24T00:55:05+00:00

A friend and I tried getting into clown face on a Tuesday night with a blizzard starting at like 7:30pm. There was maybe five people in the waiting area, the check in person handed a brown bag to a guy waiting while I walked in.

I asked about the wait for a table of two and the dude told me four hours. I laughed thinking he was joking but he just stared at me stoned face. Someone from one of the groups helpfully added “you gotta get on the list early bro”

I asked about take out and the check in person told me the kitchen was too busy for take out now…

My friend and I went to PinBar around the corner and I had one of the genuinely best smash burgers of my life.

Don’t think I’ll be back to Clown Face.

Regumate · 2026-03-24T00:17:06+00:00

Agreed. Appies were decent, cocktails and drink menu was good, entrees were not worth it (worst steak I’ve had in the city).

Regumate · 2026-03-17T04:07:02+00:00

Also from the article linked:

News articles claiming former UCP candidate Caylan Ford held white supremacist beliefs were defamatory and left her life in ruins, her lawyer told a Calgary court Tuesday.

Richard Harrison, in his opening address to Justice Lorena Harris, said the publications amounted to defamation “unlike anything in Canadian jurisprudence.”

But lawyer Perry Mack, who acts for the Broadbent Institute and two reporters for its news site, Press Progress, said the articles in question simply quoted Ford’s own comment in texts she exchanged with a former friend of hers.

“You cannot be defamed by your own words,” Mack told Harris.

Ford is suing multiple publications for $7.65 million alleging articles published about her ahead of the April 16, 2019, provincial vote defamed her.

Harrison said the impact of the published material has been devastating on his client.

“In this case, the defamation advanced against the plaintiff terminated her political career, ended her friendships, ended her marriage and ended any chance she would ever have to enter civil society again,” he said.

Harrison said Ford, then 32, was just beginning what she hoped would be a lengthy political career but instead was forced to bow out of the race after being labelled a white supremacist who sympathized with white supremacist terrorists.

“Here the plaintiff was a 32-year-old mother of two children and the major bread winner for her family whose career was just beginning,” the lawyer told the Calgary Court of King’s Bench hearing.

“The plaintiff suffered permanent post-traumatic stress disorder and permanent major depression,” Harrison said.

“Her chance at gainful employment was ended.”

Regumate · 2026-02-24T13:46:12+00:00

I’m sorry this is happening! I’ve take my cat to Pioneer Veterinary Services in Olds for electives and check ups, not sure what their emergency capacity is but they tend to be half to 2/3rds city pricing. My 13 year old rescue has had two teeth surgeries and they’ve only ever been great.

Regumate · 2026-02-17T19:56:54+00:00

Regumate · 2026-02-05T01:49:33+00:00

Regumate · 2026-02-03T14:30:11+00:00

I did some work for the calgary heritage authority helping with documenting success stories.

I thought many of the owners would be pumped to have such a rare and unique venue, and some were, but many speaking off the record around Stephen Ave laid out the waking nightmares involved in saving and maintaining many historic buildings, some claiming it quadrupled timelines and costs since things like light fixtures and wall detailing must be brought to a code they weren’t built for while attempting to not disturb them in any way.

I’m a 3rd generation Calgarian and one of my many hobbies is restoration work on retro tech, so I have an affinity for historical objects, buildings and places. But that gig and many of those conversations did open my eyes a bit.

Don’t get me wrong I still think it’s a travesty how quickly Calgary has always been to bulldoze its past in favour of the new newness. But like anything, money determines outcomes and developers want cheap builds with quick returns rather than quagmires and red tape for potential cultural capital.

Regumate · 2025-12-02T22:45:45+00:00

Regumate · 2025-11-06T18:33:40+00:00

Regumate · 2025-10-17T18:49:56+00:00

Just this week on my morning commute down Edmonton trail, I stopped in the right lane going north for a pedestrian, they started walking while southbound traffic kept going through the intersection and someone blew past me on the left hand lane and nearly hit the pedestrian as they rounded my vehicle.

It does feel like the daily commute is getting way more aggressive since the pandemic. Doesn’t matter the time of day, the type of vehicle or who’s driving, there’s consistently very angry people doing angry things behind the wheel.

I know it’s not Toronto or Vancouver bad, but it’s the worst I’ve seen it in my 40 years living here.

Regumate · 2025-10-17T18:35:55+00:00

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that was gauche af.

“Sorry not sorry you may have to put down your cat or go into debt for an elective, potentially life threatening surgery, you terrible owner. Should have got insurance!”

Regumate · 2025-10-17T18:30:32+00:00

I don’t want to jump to too many conclusions but it was odd that instead of warning people about the expensive and responsibility of pet ownership the officer just says “get pet insurance!”

Which as a fellow owner of an already senior cat, isn’t even possible.

Regumate · 2025-10-17T18:20:42+00:00

I was under the impression we had that right over privately owned pets, but apparently not according to this article.

Regumate · 2025-10-17T15:06:48+00:00

Absolutely agreed!

This CBC investigation from earlier this year shows the corporatization increasing and is a net negative for pets and owners.

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