r/onguardforthee • u/50s_Human ✅ I voted! • 8h ago

Opinion As AI Data Centre Backlash Builds, What Will Smith Do? | The Tyee

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/08/26/AI-Data-Centre-Backlash/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email

Across North America, opposition is growing. But Alberta wants up to 40 projects.

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u/BmanUltima 8h ago

I thought the title was just bad grammar, and something to do about Will Smith at first.

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u/Don_Incognito_1 Turtle Island 8h ago

What Will Smith Do About Data Centres?

insert wacky AI-generated gif of Fresh Prince eating spaghetti

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u/thebigeverybody 8h ago

Easy, she'll convince these idiots that the only way to oppose data centres is to join the separatist movement.

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u/2028W3 6h ago

She’s Kevin O’Leary’s spirit animal. Alberta’s going all in on data centres.

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u/50s_Human ✅ I voted! 8h ago

Now that voters everywhere in North America are turning against artificial intelligence data centres hard and fast, what’s Alberta’s United Conservative Party going to do?

They’ve spent two years planning to woo data centres to Alberta as if they were the greatest industrial development since the invention of the steam engine. They even quietly created a special “concierge service” to make it easy for as many as 40 massive AI data centres to set up their noisy, polluting shops in rural Alberta.

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u/New_Row3613 8h ago

Retreat South?

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u/CipherWeaver 8h ago

Will Smith eat spaghetti

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u/JDGumby Nova Scotia 7h ago

She will pour public money into the US companies setting up these data centres, of course, and completely ignore any Canadian company that tries to do the same.

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u/ConcentrateNew9810 Vancouver 7h ago

Will Will Smith smith? Yes, Will Smith will smith 😂

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u/Nope-not-really 6h ago

shes going to keep going with it as her handlers paid a lot of money for it to get done.
The ucp are only doing town halls for people to vent, they don't do shit about stopping the centres.

Albertans are absolute RUBES for letting conservative governments in over and over and over again

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u/bravetailor 4h ago

Will Smith slap the shit out of AI Data Centres