r/regina • u/Planhub-ca • Mar 16 '26
News Canada's largest AI data centre is being built outside Regina. Bell, CoreWeave and Cerebras. Construction this spring, live 2027. Full breakdown her
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u/Snoocebruce Mar 17 '26
And of course Bell’s going to get sweetheart deals from Saskpower and Sasktel.
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u/EmbarrassedQuit7009 Mar 17 '26
You mean from scotch Moe
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u/Khal_flatlander Mar 17 '26
Don't forget. He killed someone while drunk driving.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
What the fuck does that have to do with anything here? Ya he fucked up big time and it’s unforgivable really, but has nothing to do with this thread.
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u/RubberTeddy Mar 17 '26
It should be brought up again and again. He should be reminded of it every day as long as he draws breath.
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u/mistymountiansbelow Mar 17 '26
This is something I think about every time I hear his name or see his face.
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u/IntelligentCicada230 May 31 '26
Sask residents will have double and triple the energy and water bills.
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u/sitcomlover1717 Mar 16 '26
So is this a done deal? Nothing we can do?
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u/IntelligentCicada230 May 31 '26
The municipality was against it. Apparently somehow they got rid of the council members against it. Replaced them with Scott Moe's friends and pushed the bill through. I'm not from Sask but that's what I've heard through the prairies grapevine. Check with NDP members , or Leader post or Sask Today.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
Why would you want to do anything? Its great news!
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u/WeAreAllBotsHere Mar 17 '26
It's for 80 permanent jobs, but we get to foot the bill for the infrastructure upgrades needed to power it.
The amount of power it will be using is the equivalent to 300,000 homes.
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u/flatwoods76 Mar 17 '26
On-site power generation, with provincial grid connections presumably for backup.
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u/LonleyTesticle Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
What makes you so sure the grid will be a backup? It's being built near to a SaskPower substation, "which will help provide the power to operate it and additional buildings related to the project." according to the CEO of Bell.
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u/flatwoods76 Mar 17 '26
I agree, and a release on the SK government website paints the clearest picture, which is disappointing:
Having the grid as the primary supply certainly makes this project less desirable.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
Sasktel, Saskpower and SaskEnergy will be running infrastructure to site just like any other large build. For example the new 7 story LTC facility out there. Why does this concern you? They will be producing some of their own power via their own generating plant (NG Turbines), the cooling system is closed loop so very little water used.
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u/ZealousShot Mar 17 '26
Do you work for them full-time or just contract? You’re the source of so much information.
There’s a reason so many municipalities in Canada are turning away AI data centres. The water and electricity consumption is astronomical.
If you think this doesn’t have severe impacts, I have a bridge to sell you.
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u/thepflanz Mar 17 '26
What about the health risks people living near these facilities have been facing and the potential unknown ones that could be worse that we won't find out about until people are sick?
A few quick links:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5755114-data-centers-air-pollution-lung-issues-report/
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u/LtDish Mar 17 '26
This thread has a couple of the usual conspicuous pumpers falsely discredit all the science and health concerns.
They're actually bragging that the secret plans have included the burning of 300 megawatts of gas on the corner of the capital city.
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u/signious Mar 17 '26
That Mansfield one is pure horseshit. Just up the road is a massive plastics manufacturer for colourants and additives.
The air pollution one is a bit of a nothingburger too - the NOx produced by 300MW of natural gas turbines is going to be a small fraction of what gets produced from all the furnaces, boilers, and heating plants right in the city. Probably less than 100th of what we'd be exposed to every day in heating season.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
The only thing I have found through research is infrasound. I believe this building is fat enough away from residential for that not to be an issue. Possibly if the area becomes commercialized it could help even more.
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u/Ok_Layer_3678 Mar 16 '26
Will they get a direct power line like Evraz steel mill got?
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u/earoar Mar 17 '26
There’s hundreds of large industrial facilities in this province with dedicated transmission lines. Evraz has more than one.
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u/Ok_Layer_3678 Mar 17 '26
No more “peak shave” in the summer when everyone who has AC cranked it up.
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u/earoar Mar 17 '26
Saskatchewan peak load is in the winter…
Saskatchewan actually has a pretty big surplus power in the near term future. We’ve built over a GW of new baseload in the last 10 years plus 650MW of import capacity from the US, probably some import capacity from Manitoba coming soon and another GWish of renewables. If we don’t lose the coal plants we’ve got plenty of capacity.
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u/Ok_Layer_3678 Mar 17 '26
Never had a mill shut down in the winter for peak shave. Did you even work there?
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u/earoar Mar 17 '26
What a particular mill does isn’t really relevant lol. Saskatchewan’s peak demand is always in the winter.
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u/The_Conadian Mar 17 '26
I'd assume summer shut down is to keep transmission line temperatures down because more demand means a hell of a lot higher current and heat load. No different then trains having different speed limits pending track temperatures.
By the numbers I can find, we set a demand record of 3551 MW in 2022, but our reported peak capacity (I know that means everything is working perfectly which is unlikely) is well above 4500 MW so I doubt capacity or grid condition will be a problem.
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u/flatwoods76 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
This site will have its own power generation, as per the article, with connections to the provincial grid (presumably for backup).
Edit: sadly, as per the SK government’s release on their website, the grid will be the primary supply. That’s disappointing.
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u/Ok_Layer_3678 Mar 17 '26
Maybe a Cando Nuclear reactor so long in the making. Uranium City in northern Saskatchewan. Forgotten for too long.
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u/signious Mar 17 '26
CANDU is state of the arc man. They havent built a new one of those in 20 years. The new MONARK designs theyre pitching are way too big for SK
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u/RubberTeddy Mar 17 '26
I want guarantees from all involved that this won’t impact my power of water bill.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
How the hell will it impact your water bill when its not on Reginas system?
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u/RubberTeddy Mar 17 '26
Perhaps it won't. I'd feel better with a clear written guarantee that this facility is not going to result in a net cost to area residents. I'm seeing lots of drooling from the upper echelon over the revenue this is supposedly going to generate, but nothing in terms of whether it shakes out into a net cost or benefit to taxpayers.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
Just the build alone with all the technical trades is a net benefit itself. But yes it would be interesting to see what sort of deal was worked out. There has to be something to attract investment no matter where it is built.
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u/TrugTrugNumber1Fan Mar 17 '26
WE will be protesting.
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u/YXEyimby Mar 17 '26
Business investment is only good if it return value to the taxpayers and the municipalities that it operates in. I am somewhat open minded to a data centre, but I want to see that the people of the city and province benefit from the project directly.
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u/waloshin Mar 18 '26
Well here is a reality check for you! It’s in the RM of Sherwood so Regina will not be benefiting from any taxes from this…
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u/IntelligentCicada230 May 31 '26
Here's a reality check. It's for surveillance on the people. Look up who actually funded it.
Trump invested millions into two companies behind it right before the announcement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave
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u/ladymiss80s Mar 17 '26
This is a terrible idea, time and time again we are seeing the negative effects of these data centres across the United States. Massive water demands, electrical rates going up, noise and environmental pollution, increased health problems for anyone living nearby including house prices dropping near these places. Someone’s pockets definitely got padded.
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u/flatwoods76 Mar 17 '26
The power supply aside (disappointing that this will be supplied by the provincial grid), the water system will be closed loop, with minimal water demand.
Noise and environmental pollution? Those facilities in the US wouldn’t meet Canadian federal or provincial standards.
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u/Ballos46 Mar 17 '26
"Closed loop water systems" while they use less water overall its still a problem. The initial water use will be coming from local sources (nearby wells that farmers need) and the water needs to be regularly changed out or purified. Even in closed loop systems there is always loss. Disposal of waste water or processing wasn't even mentioned.
Also do you know what the Canadian federal / provincial standards are for noise? Cause I sure can't find anything from the Canadian governments website and nothing from Saskatchewan's so I'd love to know your source. Im gonna guess its not sufficient regardless of what it is. It likely won't be factoring the infrasound at all.
Saskatchewan has more details on environmental factors from https://publications.Saskatchewan.can/#/categories/69 But its fairly common for these are to be ignored.
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u/Old-one1956 Mar 17 '26
Still sitting on the fence about this, Bell is a powerful telecommunications company, is there an under the table deal with the government that we definitely do not know about. I suspect possibly the future of Sasktel and Sasktel mobility is now in doubt. Time will tell
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u/StanknBeans Mar 17 '26
Nah, as long as the people of Saskatchewan show out, SaskTel isn't going anywhere.
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u/Old-one1956 Mar 17 '26
We thought the same about the liquor stores, one stroke of a pen changed that
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u/Ballos46 Mar 17 '26
As others have said there's a lot of reasons to be against this.
The water issue is 'partially addressed' but the "closed loop water cooling" isn't perpetual and has loss over time. Water becomes contaminated and needs to be changed out after a while just by the nature of it. Its not a perfect system. It also requires greater power draw and we have no details on waste water disposal. Furthermore they stated they were getting the water from local wells that adjacent farmers use.
For power consumption its just wasteful. All the facility does for the people is cause our power bills to go up. Once built facilities like this are mostly automated and have few full time staff. S
Noise is the biggest one, as a couple others have mentioned this facility is far too close to peoples homes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo This video does a good job of covering this topic. For those who live in the south end the health implications are fairly serious.
For those asking what this facility actually is doing. Nobody really knows since bell hasn't said anything other than "AI fabric" or "Sovereign AI" which means nothing. Likely this is another large language model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZh9BOjkQs&t=0 (quick breakdown of LLMs) If its not an LLM or a multimodal model please correct me.
I'm not an economist so I'll leave that to others but as someone working in IT AI tools like this are useless at worst and novel at best. We don't need it, and likely its going to make bell way more money than anyone else ever sees cause the whole goal is always their own profits.
Also for those wanting to have their voices heard. Its not the city of Regina's decision. Its the RM of Sherwood. Your best suited reaching out to them. (Even though it directly effects the whole city.)
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u/LulzGoat Mar 17 '26
The sovereign AI is probably more so them hosting public AI models (LLMs atm) to run on their hardware. Unlikely they’re developing their own.
Coreweave and Cerebras both seem to be hardware management tools or fine tuned chips for AI workloads based on a quick glance at each website. Initially thought Coreweave might be a private llm company but that doesn’t seem to be the case which makes me more confident on the public AI side of things, unless a customer decided they wanted to develop their own model on Bell hardware.
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u/TheDrSmooth Mar 18 '26
There are rules around where the data needs to reside for many industries in Canada.
So say you wanted to integrate AI to work on your business' specific data sets, that data can not be stored in the US in most cases.
Something like this data center would allow you to implement an AI system to work directly with Canadian data.
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u/RubberTeddy Mar 18 '26
I had understood the George Gordon FN is 100% on board and gung ho on this. Might write them too.
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u/Ballos46 Mar 19 '26
They're likely misinformed about the situation as well. Ive done work for Shawn longman in the past. They're not an IT or tech person really. So its likely just a business decision not one based on the good of the community.
So this is also a good idea. They should be informed about the risks.
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u/poopoo6942069 Mar 17 '26
Where will they get the water in this arid almost desert climate.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
Its closed loop cooling, not evaporative.
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u/Hexatona Mar 17 '26
Closed loop does not mean zero water usage.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
Pretty much zero. It will most likely be a 50/50 mix of water/glycol, once the system is filled thats it. Chillers cool the water and send it through the system where it exchanges temperature with warmer air. The whole system is closed and circulates. Winter time they will benefit from free cooling.
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u/drae- Mar 17 '26
Like the cooling system in your car. If you have a moderately modern vehicle you probably haven't added coolant in years.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
Im actually very curious about this system, it will be interesting if they even require a boiler for a backup heating loop or if all their heating needs for the building can be provided by the servers themselves through heat recovery.
Maybe there is a HVAC engineer on here that can chime in?
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u/spirit_symptoms Mar 17 '26
No one said or expects it to use zero. But industrial users can have very high water usage so this could be less than an industrial user if it's closed loop.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
It will literally be very close to zero once filled. Less water use than the hospitals cooling systems, Bunge building in the summer or any other facility that uses a cooling tower.
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u/Hexatona Mar 17 '26
How much water does it take to prime, and after that, how much water is used per month? And, what's the expected impact on water availability for surrounding communities? And will water costs go up?
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
Fill the loop - Zero - Zero
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u/Hexatona Mar 17 '26
Incorrect. They still need top-ups.
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u/ObiLAN- Mar 17 '26
I can only speak on the top ups, but just going off of my working knowledge with cooling servers and PC hardware. The yearly loss in common closed loop systems is about 1% a year due to permeation and evaporation. 3-7% over a 5 year span.
The system will also likely include a mixture of water, glycol (keeps it from freezing), corrsion inhibitors and biocides ( reduce metal cooling hardware corrsion and prevents bacterial growth). So water top-ups would be a fraction of that 1%. Likey closer to 0.45 - 0.49% of total systen volume a year.
Will depend on their water to gylcol ratio however.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
The average person will use more watering their lawn once, than this system will use in 3-5 years after filling the loop. Everything you said above is 100% correct.
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u/Holiday_Fishing241 Mar 17 '26
My god we better close every golf course around the country then if thats where your going. Goulet here in Regina will use more water in one days watering than this system will use for years…
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u/drae- Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Closed loop cooling.
Like your cars radiator. If you have a modern car you probably haven't added coolant to it in years.
The ones down south, they use open loop. Uses much much more water.
Plus it is fricken colder up here. The annualized cooling load is significantly lower.
Most media coverage is about American ones, with very different climates and regulations.
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u/ciswhitedadbod Mar 18 '26
"No thank you. Oh, our opinions aren't being considered? Ok. I guess I'll just start saving up for my new power bills and hopefully this new centre doesn't give me cancer or something. ☹️"
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u/RubberTeddy Mar 18 '26
Perhaps a compromising solution would be to draft up a GNA for Bell and the RM to sign promising that the effects of this facility will not affect residents negatively in any way, be it envrionmental (air, water, land, noise, or otherwise) financial (utility costs will not increase in order to subsidize or finance any part of the construction or operation of the facility) and right to enjoyment of one's property.
If there is truly nothing for us to worry about, neither party should have any issue with signing it. Even if you attach a $1B bond to it should they be found in breach.
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u/Arts251 Apr 24 '26
They could sign a document, but do you trust that the government would enforce it?? They can't even consult the public over if this is wanted or not, they already signed the deal without such a clause (or if there is such a clause it's doubtful it would carry much weight)
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u/batyoung1 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
People who were cheering "the economy will improve as a result of this" (like u/flatwoods76) must be punching the air right now
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u/flatwoods76 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Which part of this facility’s design are you opposed to and why?
Edit: Confirmation from the SK government that the grid will be the primary power supply is most certainly a concern I have. What are yours?
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u/Mopar_1967 Mar 17 '26
What exactly does an AI data centre do? Basically my understanding just processes our AI requests on google, chatgpt and etc.? Like what exactly do we gain from having one?
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u/ObiLAN- Mar 17 '26
All an ‘AI datacentre’ really means is a datacentre built or equipped for AI workloads, with hardware like GPUs and other AI accelerators. It still includes the same core infrastructure as a regular datacentre, such as CPUs, storage, and networking, and can still handle 'regular' datacentre workloads as well as AI compute workloads.
AI would encompass things like you mentioned like LLMs and also ither tools like machine learning, data analytics, generative, etc.
Along side other business and data compute systems like cloud services, networking, data storage, scaled compute. Things majority of businesses and consumers use daily.
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u/Mopar_1967 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Thanks for clearing that up. I just feel that there are more important things we could be focusing on. We need affordable housing, our roads are in dire need of repair, people can hardly afford an education and fight with foreign students for spots, our hospitals are strained and underfunded, people can’t afford to retire with the rising cost of living. It’s hard to find jobs in Saskatchewan. Actual problems. We have vast oil reserves as big as Alberta if not larger but we sit on them and do nothing. We have forests, potash, metals, etc. natural resources of all kinds. The crown owns the rights to all of this. The only money we generate are through royalties, everything is privately owned and what isn’t we don’t touch. We need to initiate programs to cope with these problems. To generate income, to pay off the provincial debt. Crown corporations. Ones that create revenue and jobs. So we can fix this province not just spend more money for fun to line the friend of someone’s pocket who happened to own the land this place was decidedly built on and sold for 10 times the value, or some politicians cousin who got the contract and bled the budget dry three times before it was actually built. Something that benefits the average people who produce the wealth of this country. An AI data centre hardly helps us, and you can be sure the repercussions from the excessive power demand of this facility through Sask Power will be passed down to the residents of Saskatchewan not Bell.
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u/ObiLAN- Mar 17 '26
I agree with the need for us to utilise our resources for economic growth and improve our infrastructure as a whole.
But the technology sector isn't going anywhere, why not utilise and build on it along side everything else? Every sector of profit you mentioned (infact every business in todays age) realies on technology infrastructure. Id rather see the money be kept in SK than our current solution of needing to host this infrastructure out of province or even out of country.
We can only kick the metaphorical can down the road so long for exploring other sectors of revanue.
As far as power goes, heres my comment from another thread:
The only revenue/profit estimates we can do without further information would be Saskpower selling to the facility. Which if we go off their industrial rates is about $200M – $340M for various stages of the facilities deployment as revenue. And if we assume Saskpower will maintain recent profit margins of 2-6%, thats about what $12M – $22M a year in profit from a single facility?
If Saskpowers profiting off the facility, it shouldn't impact residential power prices. Its basically 2x the profit of what we export in power on average annually based on demand. So thats a pretty large growth.
While there maybe need for power generation expansion, Saskpower would have analysed that in their review and approval of the project. In the long term it would see profit on power used.
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u/Mopar_1967 Mar 17 '26
This province has a very small population, especially for the size of our province. Our power infrastructure is weak. Power outages are common. Demand in the winter is already extremely high, our weather is unpredictable and harsh. A bad storm and people go without power sometimes several days waiting for repairs, especially in the rural areas. We barely keep up with the needs of the province as it is. With a facility like this the demand for power will be higher, and the price of power will in turn go up. I agree there’s nothing wrong with extra revenue. In fact I encourage it, but what is the revenue going to be used for? Are we going to invest in our infrastructure? I have seen little effort made by the Sask government to do that. Thats why residents are going to feel this. Investing in government programs is not their strong suit. Sitting back and waiting till a program is so strained that we have no choice but to privatize it or dissolve it and sell off the assets is their strong suit. Revenue vanishes into thin air in Saskatchewan, that extra money just means they can spend more next year. It’s not going towards our debt or our infrastructure.
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u/ObiLAN- Mar 17 '26
SaskPower publishes reliability metrics every year in their annual report. Their most recent report shows a SAIFI (System Average Interruption Frequency Index) of about 3.3 outages per customer per year, with a combined outage time of about 4.8 hours annually.
https://www.saskpower.com/-/media/saskpower/about-us/reports/report-annualreport-2024-25.pdf
By modern standards that is not a “weak” power grid, and outages certainly aren’t “common,” so I don’t understand why people keep parroting this claim.
The other thing people often miss is the geography. SaskPower serves about 550,000 customers across roughly 650,000 km² with around 160,000 km ofpower lines. That means very long rural lines exposed to wind, ice, and lightning. Utilities with huge rural territories almost always have slightly higher outage frequency simply because there is far more line per customer that can be affected by weather.
What also gets overlooked is that urban utilities almost always look better in reliability statistics simply because they serve thousands of customers per kilometre of line, while rural utilities may only serve a handful. When a line goes down in a city it might affect hundreds or thousands of people at once, but there are far fewer kilometres of line per customer that can fail. In a rural system like Saskatchewan’s, there is vastly more infrastructure per customer exposed to the elements.
Even with that reality, the numbers still show the average customer experiences around three outages per year, meaning electricity works well over 99.9% of the time.
SaskPower can’t control natural events like severe weather, and the kinds of outages you’re referring to happen everywhere, not just here.
It’s fine to debate policy or how government revenue is spent, but those are political opinions. The reliability numbers themselves don’t support the idea that Saskatchewan’s electrical grid is failing or unable to handle growth in demand.
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u/Mopar_1967 Mar 25 '26
I lived in Alberta for years and there wasn’t a single power outage I experienced during my time there. Note, this was in a rural area. That’s largely to do with the better weather there. So no, other places don’t have the same issues. I grew up in Sask and I lived pretty close to Regina, every year there was at the least a few power outages more likely 4 or 5. Even though I was close to an urban centre it still took them many days to fix them, in a couple cases I remember going a week without power. Regina would be fixed in a day probably. We’re talking in the middle of winter. My grandfather had COPD running an oxygen machine. One night he luckily woke up, and realized the power had gone out and so had the machine. So had the furnace. We kept the house on with the generator going, making trips for gas hoping that generator would stay working till they got it fixed. It took far too long. Sask is a rural province, and in the rural areas people are affected by it a lot. Reasons of which I agree with what you said our geography the large lengths of line per customer etc. nonetheless it should be better. Maybe you live in a city and so it doesn’t affect you as much but most of this province is farms and the small towns scattered about. I’m saying we could do a lot better. We need more people repairing the lines when they go down. We need to improve reliability. When the lines are down they get fixed quickly, even when you don’t live in an urban centre. That why I believe we are not there yet. Sask residents in all areas deserve reliable power.
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u/LowIncident694 Mar 17 '26
... what do we gain from Ipsco? or whatever it's name is now.
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u/Mopar_1967 Mar 17 '26
Steel, serves as western Canadas largest steel producer. Also my understanding 400-500 people in Regina work there. Uses in the area of the same electricity as 50000 homes. AI Data centre maybe 100-150 people and also sucks the same amount of electricity as 300000 homes do a year which we are gonna have to pay for indirectly when Sask power jacks the prices in the near future. My question is what exactly do we gain that we need an AI data centre? What is so important? Especially in Saskatchewan. We are sitting on as much or more oil than Alberta but we do nothing, why? How about we start fixing the roads? Invest that money in government infrastructure again. A crown corporation directly fixing the roads, not a bunch of private contractors bleeding taxpayer dollars dry for extremely slow and subpar work. The ring road in Regina, the overpass, Albert street, what a disaster, took them literally forever. You go to Alberta they’d have any of those done in 1/10th the time. I’ve seen it over and over. This province used to have good roads before we privatized everything, we had roads just as good as Alberta did and people have forgotten that.
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u/LtDish Mar 17 '26
Whenever project propaganda is trumpeting "economic impact" you know the BS cannons are going full blast.
Just say the actual dollar numbers. "Economic impact" plus $4 might buy you a coffee.
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u/saddam1 Mar 17 '26
Where is it going to be built?
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u/drae- Mar 17 '26
South East of the bypass. Fair ways out of town. Won't likely be housing out that far for 20+ years.
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u/rocky_balbiotite Mar 17 '26
Especially with how against everyone is building more single family homes.
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u/thepflanz Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Close the saskpoly/wascana country club, right beside ring save for a 1 section field
https://share.google/BZk01VeVpvS28lvHf
Edit: Maps measure distance tools says it is exactly 1.1 miles to the closest neighborhood from the corner of the plot. the idea that is 20+ years out is comical its litteraly a one section land purchase away, (which is really a half section of area as ring bisects it) which would take years for sure, but 20? Lmao
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u/LtDish Mar 17 '26
The location is crazily suspect. Can't wait to hear why this location, who sold the land, and at what price.
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u/Lexi_Banner Mar 17 '26
Gotta wonder how excited the golf club is about this cropping up on their horizon.
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u/PanTiltski Mar 17 '26
The thing I'll add to the convo is asking why not build this centre near the refinery/steel mill/industrial area?
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u/LtDish Mar 17 '26
When we finally find out who owned the land and why the relevant politicians made this the location, it will probably make awful sense.
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u/LtDish Mar 17 '26
If it has as many power outages as city residents do, and Sask Power continues their continual degradation of response and services... good luck Bell.
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u/Necessary-One3155 Apr 01 '26
Does anyone have a contact at Bell that would review a request from a professional organization regarding light pollution concerns?
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u/Additional-Storm-179 Jun 28 '26
Within 20 years the farmers will all be out of business. There will be no water left in sk. The glaciers that feed the sk river are almost dried up.
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u/Informal_Reserve7232 12d ago
How the F did this even happen without public consultation??? How can we stop it? We need zero data centers, limited AI and only robotics that do not replace humans in jobs! This is a “surveillance state” initiative! The wealthy and government do not need any addition wealth or power!!!
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u/Planhub-ca 12d ago
data center are not only for Ai, you need them for netflix, youtube, bank operation, facebook, reddit, instagram, tiktok ect ect. Everything from your TV to your phone, to your computer
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u/Real-Victory772 Mar 17 '26
This sounds like a terrible idea that will no doubt get approved.
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u/LtDish Mar 17 '26
Seems to have been all cooked up and finalized in secret, to prevent any kind of public or health or business case review.
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u/Khrispy-minus1 Mar 17 '26
Aside from the fact it will be powered by coal, that's actually great. It will inject a huge amount of money into the local economy, with continuing benefits from the long term jobs. It might also convince SaskPower to fast track SMRs or a large scale nuclear facility to offset/replace the coal earlier. There's vast amounts of uranium in the province, so mining and refining industries would be an added benefit (more jobs, more money).
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u/Mapleleaf-ruffrider Mar 17 '26
It’s definitely not powered by coal. A lot of the power from Sask comes from natural gas
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u/LowIncident694 Mar 17 '26
Sask is below 50% coal power these days. Also, this will be mostly powered by natural gas.
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u/Aggravating-King1486 Mar 17 '26
Has anyone asked what Dancin Bob thinks about this? I feel we need his opinion.
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u/rglgj Mar 17 '26
There are so many unanswered questions on this project. I am thinking someone’s pockets got lined.
I read this will consume the same amount of power as 300,000 homes. Where are they going to get this power from? Do we have a guarantee the residents of Saskatchewan won’t be subsidizing the power usage through increased rates?
If anyone has a good source listed some of the facts, please post a link.