{"id":2856,"date":"2026-08-05T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:17:56","slug":"euphemism-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/euphemism-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Euphemism Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2026\/08\/04\/Alberta-Propaganda-Push-Data-Centres\/?utm_source=daily&amp;utm_medium=email\">From The Tyee<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Conservative Party government must be encountering stiffer opposition than it expected to its plan to make Alberta North America\u2019s dumping ground for the artificial intelligence data centres that citizens most everywhere else are organizing to fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider the slick&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/datacentres\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">propaganda section<\/a>&nbsp;that\u2019s appeared on the Government of Alberta\u2019s official website, which bizarrely tries to pass off water- and energy-gobbling hyperscale data centres as \u201cdigital refineries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site\u2019s first goal is obviously to get voters on side with the massive Sturgeon County data centre planned by Meta Platforms Inc. a few kilometres northeast of Edmonton. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat is a data centre, really?\u201d it asks. &#8230; \u201cWhen people say \u2018the cloud,\u2019 they mean a data centre. There is no cloud. There is just somebody else\u2019s computer, in a big building, doing work on your behalf. AI data centres are the next generation of the same infrastructure. Instead of mostly storing information, they are built to think.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No points for trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Tyee: The United Conservative Party government must be encountering stiffer opposition than it expected to its plan to make Alberta North America\u2019s dumping ground for the artificial intelligence data centres that citizens most everywhere else are organizing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/euphemism-effort\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[133,142],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-centres"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}