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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it is more efficient to build them local to the fuel rather than building pipelines to ship it elsewhere then burning it there to run those data centers.

Alberta does not make fuel, they make a tar sludge that needs to be refined in the US to make fuel. 100 years of tar sands and they still haven't invested in a decent local refinery.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

None of that is relevant. Datacenters use electricity, which comes from Natural Gas Power Plants, which use Natural Gas, not Oil from the Oilsands. Natural gas is also exported via pipelines to the rest of Canada and the US.