US bullshit aside, Canada has been struggling for a while. Cost of living is out of control, many folks are struggling. Housing prices are completely unmoored from reality, especially in major cities.
I mean, the data centers aren't going to be on prem, they'll have more than one and distributed across regions.
Don't trust your cherished family photos with Google lest they use them to train their AI models or provide them as facial rec training data for military purposes now.
Last election did that. If you think there will continue to be free and democratic elections in US after Trump you are mistaken. Those college votes are no longer going to matter.
Dunno. Vancouver's pretty fucked for housing and that's got 6.2% foreign ownership rate. I wouldn't mind being able to have a shot at affording a home in my city.
It's not the ONLY reason housing is fucked but 6.2% isn't nothing.
What do you mean? Musk was born in '71.