I'm not sure if I am one of your three acknowledged idiots, but i will add this. Data centers are controversial because of natural resource (water) consumption, and site proximity to residential areas. These are the two big ones I'm aware of. For the new NS location, I don't know yet how either of these issues apply. I am also aware of newer centers recycling water. Bottom line, it may be too early for protests. Regardless, there should have been public consultation before committing to the project.
As someone slightly familiar with the location, point Tupper is an industrial zone. PHPaper has been there for 60 years. There is no residential areas there save for maybe 2 houses.
As for the water: Landrie lake is (if I recall correctly) the aquifer where the town of Port Hawkesbury gets their residential water, so id assume consumption will affect the town if that's true.
Wastewater will presumably be dumped into the strait of cameo, and although the pulp mill has been dumped wastewater into the strait for many years, more wastewater is def not a good thing.
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u/Agjc16 19h ago
And others struggle to construct a simple sentence.