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NEW - Thirteen Billion Dollars, and It's Still Not Ours
A Meta data center Alberta project worth thirteen billion dollars sounds like a win for Canadian business, but Emily Osborne makes the case for why the price tag is the least important number in the story.
Osborne breaks down the gap between investment and actual digital sovereignty, explaining why a data center built to serve an American company's surveillance apparatus does nothing for Canadian control over Canadian data. She draws a direct line to telecom and aviation, industries where Canada has long protected domestic ownership, and asks why cloud computing and AI infrastructure haven't…
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