During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partner for a 25-year cloud computing contract for the federal government. The contract’s length should have set off red flags of its own, but the…
I present to you: Chibougamau, Quebec. There’s a higher education institution not too far away to train technicians. It’s north enough that it’s fucking cold. It’s also pretty close (comparatively) to the massive hydro electric dams that powder the entire province to make significant savings in transmission losses, and the transmission network reaches all the way to major cities to easily piggyback fiber deployments!
I present to you: Chibougamau, Quebec. There’s a higher education institution not too far away to train technicians. It’s north enough that it’s fucking cold. It’s also pretty close (comparatively) to the massive hydro electric dams that powder the entire province to make significant savings in transmission losses, and the transmission network reaches all the way to major cities to easily piggyback fiber deployments!