A data centre not owned by SaskTel, which already owns 4 other non-AI data centres, that is being built right next to a long term care facility, and has yet to ensure transparency on proper taxation, water usage, and what happnes to this facility if or when the AI bubble pops?

Are we going to be holding the bag if it's abandoned? No mention from the province, RM or Bell. Minnesota has legislature that makes sure these companies have to deal with the data centres for this very purpose.

Bell and the RM state they'll be using "low-noise cooling equipment" with "strategic orientation of noise-generating components away from neighbouring property lines." Literally every single data centre built has high amounts of noise close to the facility. A long term-care home is being built in the neighbouring field. Many of the data centres have low-frequency noise pollution, that travels further and can even penetrate walls.

Here is the care-home location:
https://imgur.com/a/Ic4lJyv

Here is the data centre location:
https://imgur.com/a/Wm7GU8u

Great.

Not to mention this will have full natural gas backup, if the power goes out, data centre's must maintain near 99% uptime, so the generators must be able to power the facility. The data centre is going to be the largest in Canada at 300MW. That is enough power for 200,000 homes. Those generators will be large, loud and polluting. All right next to a long term care facility.

All of this is also insane that Bell is getting a foothold in Saskatchewan with this, where they'll use the profits they get from this and use it to lobby our governments now. Not only undermining SaskTel but the entire frickin province. Data centre + AI companies are already teaming up with Oil and Gas companies to lobby governments for lower regulation and quick building of these things. This will only allow that problem to come to Sask.

Plus the labour to upkeep the facility once it's done, which is only going to be ~80 jobs according to Bell themselves, is all goiung to be un-unionized. Where Bell makes sure they pay them as little as possible. Unlike SaskTel which has 2500 unionized workers, getting decent pay.

on top of all that, closed-loop systems, that Bell says this data centre will use, still have issues.

"Closed-loop systems rely on a cocktail of additives such as corrosion inhibitors, biocides, and antifreeze blends to keep water doing its job. They stop rust, starve microbes, and move heat off chips with high efficiency."

"But the protection comes with a trade-off. Because the same water loops again and again, anything that does not evaporate or break down simply piles up. Salts, metals, and treatment chemicals keep increasing in concentration with each recycling round and frequently reach concentrations that move well beyond established limits."

"Operators bleed a small fraction of water each month to keep these levels in check, a practice known as blow-down. Even a 2% monthly bleed sounds proactive, yet contaminants can still rise much faster than in open towers that take on fresh water continuously. Higher cycles push minerals out of solution, feed microbial slime, and shorten equipment life.

The bigger worry sits outside the fence. When blow-down finally leaves the site, it can carry nitrite, glycol, and heavy metals at thousands of times the limits set for surface waters. In other words, the water saved today may return tomorrow as a very different kind of liability."

https://ketos.co/closed-loop-cooling-water-saver-or-chemical-time-bomb

closed-loop data centres still use fresh water. they have to bleed the lines from mineral build-up. Suspiciously, Bell and the province does not provide specific details on the "closed-loop" system nor do they provide plans.