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Stephen Downes

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The news is this: "Celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary says he is planning to bankroll and build what he says will be the world's largest artificial intelligence data centre. The proposal — named Wonder Valley — is slated to be built in the District of Greenview, near Grande Prairie, Alta." The idea of building a data centre in a cold climate is a good one. But Grande Prairie isn't as cold as you might think - I used to live there. You'd want to build it about 2,000 kilometers north to take advantage of the climate. And $70 billion seems like a lot. And I would not be inclined to trust Kevin O'Leary to build it.

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