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Bl's avatar
Jun 6Edited

let’s be brutally honest: people who are clinging to a traditional First Nations lifestyle in 2025 is a pipe dream. They cant continue to exist for the next 200 years without integrating into modern technology. We’re in a world of AI, automation, hypersonic missiles, nuclear threats etc... we as a nation need to keep up or we will get crushed, or more comically, absorbed by the US as the 51st state (sigh). The data centre is our way to stay relevant against global superpowers... The US already has multiple sovereign compute centers built, most recently the Memphis one "Colossus". Canada has the most barebones setup. Bell is only now starting to branch out https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bell-ai-new-data-centres-bc-1.7546516.... and Bell _does not_ have the brightest AI researchers and engineers working for them (they all brain drain to the US for actual opportunities to work in cutting edge facilities). Imagine a Chinese/Russian invasion—do you think the CCP, with its top-down iron grip, would care about Indigenous rights? They’d laugh at Treaty No. 8 while seizing the land. Rights are meaningless when tanks/drone-swarms roll in.

Tears me apart to say it, but preserving a pre-industrial way of life is unrealistic when survival demands technological edge. The world’s too dangerous, too fast. Indigenous justice deserves a fight, but in the global chess game, we are playing frickin checkers here...

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Ritaritabobita's avatar

Interesting articles at Fractal Computing by Jay Valentine. He goes into depth about archaic data centers being asked for by corporates.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fractalcomputing/p/the-ai-bubble-driven-by-legacy-software?r=1jzb30&utm_medium=ios

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Bl's avatar
Jun 6Edited

For an actual attempt at an EU style sovereign data center that respects geographic nature habitats see

https://evroc.com/sovereignty

https://evroc.com/sustainability

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Bl's avatar
Jun 6Edited

this guy is a joke... look at the website

https://fractalweb.app/

https://imgur.com/a/yz1Zz5D "build applications 10x Faster!" -- he is just a sales wolf in sheeps clothing trying to play the emotional argument that the product he is selling is better for the environment

it looks like a cookie-cutter brochure built by an agency in 2005.

there are no public git repos, not on github, gitea, gitlab, no documentation getting started guides, no open-source development or maintainers from other ecosystems evenn remotely interested in what the author is offering. There is no adoption by major players because there is nothing of value offered by them.

I don't think the author has used multiple agents to rewrite a distributed systems codebase using the latest Claude models by Anthropic.

https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

we will eventually move datacenters off planet into space. for now though, we require them to be built under our sovereignty, in climate agreeable areas (north) to stay competitive with other nations.

https://www.starcloud.com/

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Betsy's avatar

Example of putting the fraudulent value of reducing carbon ahead of real values of honoring treaties with Indigenous peoples and acknowledging ecological integrity, the land, the Cree way of life, and basic human decency.

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Gavin Mounsey's avatar

Thank you for raising awareness on this.

So, essentially, these corporate goons, wannabe big tech bros and this anthropocentric exploitative worldview driven Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to sacrifice the forests and sacred waters so that we can create more of these earth suffocating useless Mega-Data centers.

She wants to throw the First Nation and the integrity of the biosphere under the bus so humans can push forward with the transhumanist agenda ( https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2020/02/11/exploring-biodigital-convergence/ ) super charge more of these human intelligence diminishing chat bots (https://archive.org/details/chatbotsloweringhuman-iq ) and feed into the military industrial complex weaponizing AI to create more killer drones so the war racket can continue in perpetuity.

Yay "Sustainable Development"!

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Bl's avatar

Do you think invading nations will care about indigenous issues when their drone armies backed by Artificial General Intelligence command centers invade Canada?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1j4rpg9/china_vs_usa_total_electricity_generation_by_year/

Artificial Intelligence is the #1 issue going forward. The human race is beginning to deal with the most dangerous and powerful technology. If we don't start the race, we will be left behind, and the nations that conquer our stoneage establishments built in the early 1900s, won't care about Treaty 8 Indigenous laws signed in 1899.

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Gina's avatar

Our nations need to uphold Sturgeon lake. I have been referring to #undripisalie for some time. At this time B.C. is hosting meeting AFN and bands who will be losing out to Trudeau assimilation plan referred to as 2.0 by Russell Diabo where discussions regarding ending the Indian act Will occur. Calling out for a repeal of the doctrine of discovery by our nations requiring our unification and support for Indigenous actions and movements that support one another.

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James Don BlueWolf's avatar

Again Peter writes with clarity, importantly highlighting the totally horrific foundations of North American Indigenous law--how it developed and where Natives are pushing back. If the foundations of a dwelling are rotten or fragile, you can expect that building to one day fall.

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Lisa Wolf's avatar

Haihai

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Joshua M...'s avatar

Unfortunately, even entering the court system means submission to the inflated authority of corporate (and likely corrupt) judges who will never find in favour of "justice" or "honour". Hope I am mistaken in this case...

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

Key Studies Supporting Non-Thermal Biological Effects

National Toxicology Program (NTP) and Ramazzini Institute (RI) Studies

The NTP and RI studies are among the most influential research efforts highlighting the dangers of non-thermal EMF exposure. Conducted on rodent models, these studies found a significant increase in cancers, particularly brain and heart tumors, after prolonged exposure to low-intensity EMFs. These results echo concerns raised in the recent Danish cancer report, which showed an alarming 100% increase in specific cancers within a short timeframe.

The types of cancers identified in these studies—such as glioblastomas—mirror those that have claimed the lives of notable public figures, including John McCain, Ted Kennedy, and Beau Biden. This connection between high-profile cancer cases and the kinds of tumors linked to EMF exposure demands our attention, especially as our collective reliance on wireless technologies grows.

The Role of Calcium Channels and Oxidative Stress

well-established risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Given the role of mitochondria in cellular energy production and antioxidant defenses, the findings from the recent mitochondrial study suggest that long-term EMF exposure could exacerbate these conditions.

Cancer Risks: As shown in the NTP and RI studies, low-intensity EMF exposure has been associated with an increased risk of cancer, especially brain and heart cancers. The potential for EMFs to alter cellular signaling and DNA integrity without heating tissue presents a compelling case for re-evaluating safety standards, especially in light of the rapid increase in wireless technology usage.

https://www.rfsafe.com/articles/cell-phone-radiation/beyond-heating-why-its-time-to-reclassify-emf-risks-in-light-of-non-thermal-biological-effects.html

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Brett Hyland's avatar

Thank you for the continuing education, Peter. Be well.

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Vicki Nikolaidis's avatar

Very disrespectful to First Nations. The data center sounds like a huge electricy gobbler in order to keep the servers cool.

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

those electromagnetics will likely disturb and harm the wildlife as well as the people. Also the “gases” are concerning.

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Vicki Nikolaidis's avatar

Yes, so many reasons to not build it can be found. It's a really bad idea

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

inversion - like what was done with “consent” actually means “we’ll do what the fuck we want regardless of your agreement” - is what the cults that rape Earth and her peoples do best. It is not nonsense - it dark magic in its plasticized public expression that somehow just sounds like playdough mixed with sweet tasting anti-freeze and has people in such a brain fog they can’t realize they’ve been black magiced.

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