Yeah there's a reason our datacentres are in Kamloops, cheap housing and a big ass river right next to it. It even gets decently cold in the winter so you can save on cooling.

There's also tons of opportunity to build them out in former pulp mill towns on Vancouver Island that have big interconnects or dedicated generation.

You'd have to be an idiot to put a datacentre in Vancouver, or have fuck-off scale monopoly money, which is probably why Telus is doing it.

Shhh don't forget we have a water shortage. But it is nice to have electricity wrapped into my relatively cheap basement suite rent ;)