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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Hamilton, ON, blocked a land severance designed to allow development of a datacenter yesterday.
Among the lies from the developers:
$3.8B in economic activity
23,000 new jobs. (hilarious)
The centre would only be used for data storage...sure, which is why it was planning to use 10mW of power and suck cooling water from Lake Ontario.
But the big question is whether Doug Ford will waddle in and let them build anyway.
Just to be a pedant, I know you meant MW not mW.
I'm happy for them to waste 10mW but paper straws vs 10MW of bs... well I think we know what we prefer.
Hamilton with a population of 570 000. So the data center would employ about 4%. Sure.
Holy shit! That's amazing! Great job Hamilton!