Some public service jobs will be cut as Ottawa adopts AI

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/some-public-service-jobs-will-be-cut-as-ottawa-adopts-ai-chief-data-officer/

https://www.demandsage.com/ai-job-replacement-stats/

https://www.investopedia.com/ai-impact-on-jobs-numbers-11806190

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/how-will-ai-affect-the-global-workforce

The AI boom sidelined sustainability and has caused data center safety concerns

 https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/anthropics-spacex-compute-deal-comes-as-ai-data-center-backlash-grows-fueled-by-both-real-grievances-and-conspiracy-theories/  

https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx 

The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788 

https://opportunitygreen.org/data-centres/reports/data-centres-threaten-energy-systems-climate-goals

https://www.wri.org/insights/us-data-center-growth-impacts

https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/ 

https://ucalgary.ca/sustainability/mobilizing-alberta/climate-action-blogs/will-ai-data-centres-raise-water-and-power-use-alberta Since Canada is cold for half of the year, its amazing that there aren't more AI data centers. 

https://www.siemens.com/en-us/industries/data-centers/cooling-infrastructure-ai-optimization 

https://www.eli.org/vibrant-environment-blog/ais-cooling-problem-how-data-centers-are-transforming-water-use

Protesters rally against planned AI data centres in Vancouver

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/protest-against-ai-data-centres-in-vancouver-9.7210309 

https://vancouversun.com/news/ai-data-centre-protest-vancouver

 https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1tm349r/scenes_from_todays_antidata_centre_demonstration/ 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-ai-data-centre-demonstration-march-telus

Oakridge Park mall in Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-oakridge-park-mall-opening While shopping online can be a great convenience, going to a mall can still be a nice tactile experience. Had the horrible Covid shutdown gone on for another year, people would have been more conditioned to order things online and perhaps even have to ask AI for permission to go out anywhere. 

Despite feeble attempts to the moon and Mars, most of humanity is confined to the Earth. That doesn't mean that the planet should ever become an AI run prison. However, things like a World Carbon Credit Score, a Personal Compliance Score and having to seek permission from AI to go anywhere, would be the epitome of a Sci-Fi dystopian story being imposed upon the MA$$E$.  

Thus, the shopping mall and public transit should always remain as safe, open places. Eventually, mall security and transit police might be augmented with robots and AI drones.  

Fortunately, the new and improved Oakridge wont be like anything out of a dystopian Sci-Fi story. 

Its so creepy how the Canada Embarrassment Line was designed to only have 2 car trains, with no easy expansion ability to have 4-8 car trains. Indeed, to design a 2 billion dollar line without the capability to at least have 5 car trains is a very sad joke. The stations are only designed to eventually accommodate a 2.5 car train as if to symbolize the reluctance to ever connect YVR to both ferry terminals. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakridge-41st_Avenue_station

https://www.translink.ca/news/2025/may/oakridge%20canada%20line%20station%20to%20close%20early

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge+Park+Mall

How AI Datacenters Eat the World Power Grid

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqoTku-HAA 

People are told to not have kids or own any cars & avoid using air transportation as much as possible. Apparently, this cutting down agenda will help the billionaires enjoy their Champagne & caviar lifestyle, even morso. 

Then there is the stot using natural gas agenda, don't have a fireplace & especially, don't have campfires or beach bonfires. Yet, its alright for the billionaires to construct huge AI Datacenters which require a tremendous amount of energy to run.

Then humans are to eventually be conditioned to constantly check with AI to see if they can get permission to go to another part of town, or even just a local store. All it takes is for the tracking AI system to say that you have already exceeded your carbon output for the week. 

In a world where your smartwatch & phone, computer & TV are always gathering data and processing information on everyone, things become an intersection of Alphaville, THX_1138, Blade_Runner, Brazil & Black_Mirror. 

Then someone like Boy_Kavalier is your regional corporate, feudal lord. https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Boy_Kavalier

AI uncertainty hangs over Vancouver office market

Some experts say shifting job needs are making future demand for office space harder to predict https://www.biv.com/news/technology/ai-uncertainty-hangs-over-vancouver-office-market-12348582 

Was Vancouver somehow generations ahead of AI in not allowing tall office towers. In many cities a 30 story office tower is like a stump. Even a 40 story office tower would just be average, at best.

Given the strict height limitations of Vancouver, the 30 story TD_Tower wasn't completed until 1972. 

That means that during its construction, Vancouver had its first office tower rising over 29 floors in 1971.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD_Tower_(Vancouver) 

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/the-stack/35667 38 floors

https://www.canadianarchitect.com/the-stack-zero-carbon-office-tower-officially-opens/ 37 story

https://www.mmoser.com/projects/the-stack-rooftop-vancouver 37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amieA9XHAVQ

https://macleans.ca/culture/building-vancouver-stack-work-life-balance/ 37

https://www.oxfordproperties.com/lease/office/31191 36

https://www.adamson-associates.com/project/the-stack-1133-melville/ 36 

https://www.ledcor.com/our-projects/project-gallery/project-gallery-building/commercial/the-stack-office-tower 36 levels 

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1k7dt3j/the_stack_vancouver_bc/

https://www.urbanyvr.com/oxford-properties-announces-major-tenants-of-the-stack-at-1133-melville/

The Urban A.I. Intersection

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielaraya/2019/01/04/artificial-intelligence-and-the-end-of-government/#3a185e40719b ,

https://www.oxfordinsights.com/insights/ailegitimacy ,

https://channels.theinnovationenterprise.com/articles/ai-and-the-future-of-government ,

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-is-an-ideology-not-a-technology


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence/

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Synthetic_Technocracy_(Civ6)

Amazon’s (A.I.) City of The Future

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjraUKJRIt8

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.

Residents split on Vancouver AI data centres

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-ai-data-centre-proposal-opposition

The 15-Minute City

 https://www.nlc.org/article/2023/06/13/exploring-the-15-minute-city-concept-and-its-potential-for-communities-of-all-sizes/

Ideally, if most stores and general services are within 15 to 30 minutes, that would be quite convenient.

https://www.15minutecity.com

However, with AI run cameras & authorization prompts from cell phones, traveling to another part of a city might become more difficult. If an AI human control algorithm says that you have already used up too much of your carbon credits and should remain home, that's not a system fit for free people. 

More urban issues at...

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Exploring+the+15-Minute+City+Concept

Vancouver Is Getting Two AI Data Centres

 https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/05/18/Vancouver-Getting-AI-Data-Centres/

Could AI lead to a short-term dystopia?

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11332878/ai-short-term-dystopia-google-ex-executive/

Is Montreal the centre of the AI world?

 https://www.rcinet.ca/en/podcasts/montreal-centre-of-the-a-i-world

https://blog.mtl.org/en/montreal-artificial-intelligence

Understanding the elusiveness of smart cities

 https://spacing.ca/toronto/2025/06/23/understanding-the-elusiveness-of-smart-cities/

While an AI run city might seem efficient on the surface, there could be a layer of totalitarianism just underneath.

https://www.highlandernews.org/92315/in-defense-alphaville-jean-luc-godards-computer-ruled-sci-fi-city/

Training people to bark, grunt or roll over in order to not exceed their weekly carbon credit allotment is excrement!

https://www.propellerbooks.com/posts/2014/6/4/government-is-a-computer-alphaville

An AI run technocratic city could easily turn the place into a prison.

https://brightlightsfilm.com/technocratic-totalitarianism-one-dimensional-thought-in-jean-luc-godards-alphaville/

https://arcfinity.tumblr.com/post/85900501084/weve-been-having-urban-nightmares

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/jan/29/future-cities-in-film

A.I. and Robotics

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/04/why-there-will-be-robot-uprising/82783/?oref=d-dontmiss

Cars & trucks with on board A.I. could certainly improve efficiency, but it would mean giving up on human control. Even with standard or conventional vehicles operated by people, a supercomputer could dramatically assist & improve local & regional traffic flow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motorways_in_the_United_Kingdom

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/happy-birthday-m25-25-facts-infamous-motorway-239455
The M25 is the quintessential highway belt for Greater London
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-25619343,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8401336.stm,

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-27019957,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1045177/Fathers-4-Justice-protester-arrested-M25-stunt-causes-15-mile-traffic-jam.html

http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.ca/2014/04/the-autobahn.html

http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.ca/2014/04/controlled-accesshighwaydefinition.html

An AI-company-uses-deepfake-technology-seamlessly-dub-favorite-actors-dialogue

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9613749/AI-company-uses-deepfake-technology-seamlessly-dub-favorite-actors-dialogue.html

Massive protest march against Vancouver AI data centres

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-ai-data-centre-protest-march

Golf courses and LARGE AI data server facilities

 https://www.reddit.com/r/nanaimo/comments/1t6spq5/about_that/ 

While the BC part of Canada is notoriously heavy on various restrictions and especially reducing the scale of things, golf courses and AI server farms might be in a special category. As land in urban areas continue to rise, several urban golf courses could be repurposed for housing or parks. Thus, golf courses might be better suited to be farther away from urban areas.

An AI_data_center can be problematic if its too close to an urban area. However, if its even out in the wilderness, an AI_data_center can cause environmental damage and other problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center#Environmental_footprint 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_AI_data_centers 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center#AI_data_centers_in_space

Urban Tech Links .:. UTL

UTL - Personal observations of the urban world from a backwards Vancouver and backwater BC perspective. Indeed, it's always amazing to see what so many other cities can do, simply because they don't have anything like a Vancouver, Victoria & BC mentality to hold them back.

The Greater_Tokyo_Area is the most populated urban region on the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_area#Largest_urban_areas ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area

https://wikimedia.org/Sand_Island_and_Honolulu.jpg Honolulu hasn't permitted any buildings to be as tall as what is in Miami, LA or SF. Indeed, Honolulu, has avoided having a Singapore or especially a HK size skyline. So far, no building has been allowed to be as tall as the Custom_House_Tower in Boston or the Smith_Tower in Seattle. Indeed, no buildings are even allowed to be as tall as the Los_Angeles_City_Hall at 453 feet or 138m.

https://wikimedia.org/Perth_airport.JPG No building in Vancouver is allowed to be as tall as the 2 tallest in Perth & Calgary.

Honolulu and 

Perth, WA are in such nice climate zones. They are a couple of the most isolated major cities on the planet. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu#Transportation , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#Transport

In some ways, Australia has been able to surpass Canada, despite it having a smaller land area & less population than Canada. Unlike Montreal & especially Vancouver, Perth & especially Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, have allowed several taller buildings than what is allowed in Montreal & Vancouver. 

However, Honolulu's_tallest_buildings still haven't been permitted to even be as tall as the 2 tallest in the Giza_pyramid_complex in Cairo, Egypt. 

Urban Tech Links is a basic blog about referencing tall buildings & urban technology in various cities in general. Thus, it's mostly just a list of various urban and tech links. It's also about comparing various cities & infrastructure.

Some cities like to have narrow bridges, short trains & small buildings, like Vancouver, while many others cities reach for the sky. 

There is a point when a lot of major cities start to permit buildings to be taller than the 2 tallest pyramids in Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids 

Paris & London, NYC & Chicago, Tokyo & Seoul...  

www.infrastructurebc.com

The BC part of Canada has tried to keep its infrastructure as small as possible for as long as possible.

It wasn't until the 1970s when strict & stubborn Vancouver started to allow for some buildings to be almost as tall as the 2 tallest Egyptian pyramids. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=105524651&offset=50 

1973 Royal_Centre_(Vancouver) not quite as tall as .:.

1977 Harbour_Centre not counting the flagpole, its still shorter than the original height of the tallest Egyptian pyramid.

2001 One_Wall_Centre, not including its spire, was the first building in Vancouver & BC to be taller than the tallest pyramid in Egypt. 

For most of Vancouver's history, the city refused to permit any building to be taller than the pyramid on top of the 496' Custom_House_Tower in Boston, the 462' Smith_Tower in Seattle, the 453' Los_Angeles_City_Hall. Of course today they are all just like stumps. 481' and 471' are the original heights of the 2 tallest in the Giza_pyramid_complex.

https://wikimedia.org/Pyramids_of_the_Giza_Necropolis.jpg

https://wikimedia.org/Kheops-Pyramid.jpg

"Initially standing at 146.6 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the world's tallest human-made structure for more than 3,800 years. Over time, most of the smooth white limestone casing was removed, which lowered the pyramid's height to the current 138.5 metres (454.4 ft)" 

Height	Original: 146.6 m (481 ft) or 280 cubits Current: 138.5 m (454 ft)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza 

Height	Currently: 136.4 metres (448 ft) Original: 143.5 m (471 ft; 274 cu)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Khafre

"The 1997 study noted that the opportunities for buildings significantly exceeding existing permitted heights were limited. There were a total of five sites where buildings exceeding the 450 foot height limit are possible and two sites in the northwest corner of the Central Business District where heights up to 400 feet (exceeding the 300 foot limit) could be considered." https://council.vancouver.ca/20030515/pe2.htm

Indeed, it's tough to believe that for the longest time, any building in the BC part of Canada had to be considerably shorter than the Washington_Monument in DC or the Philadelphia_City_Hall.

Then Vancouver wouldn't permit any building to be as tall as the Cairo_Tower. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Tower "At 187 m (614 ft), it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998..."

2016 was when a Hotel-Condo was allowed to be slightly taller than the Cairo-Tower. 

The Cairo_Flagpole is the world's tallest flagpole, at 201.952 m (662 ft 7 in) tall. No building in Vancouver is allowed to be as tall.

The Living_Shangri-La tower is close, but not quite.

Of course Vancouver, BC & even Canada can't stop Egypt from building big & tall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Egypt#Tallest_structures

{The origin of Al-Qahirah is said to come from the appearance of the planet Mars during the foundation of the City of Cairo. The planet Mars, which in Greek was called Ares, was associated with ruin or destruction and was called Al Najm Al Qahir in Arabic. Al Najm Al Qahir is transliterated as "the destroyer star [planet]".} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo#Modern_era

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-cairo-washington-dc Washinton, DC made sure that going into the 20th century, it was going to have mostly low rise buildings like Paris & London or Berlin. However, the Greater Paris Region would eventually allow some tall buildings in certain areas. London even moreso. Yet, Greater London & Metropolitan Paris, certainly have allowed some tall buildings. 

Vancouver has been under a multigenerational set of restrictions as well as a small thinking & planning agenda. Part of this might be attributed to a backwater BC mentality. However, some parts of Greater Vancouver are allowed to build on a grander scale.

Edmonton, Seattle, Portland & eventually Calgary will all have underground train stations longer than what's in Vancouver. Yet, Vancouver could have really benefited from having proper big city long stations. Most of the regions bridges are so narrow that its difficult to have a proper bus lane & HOV lane system. But Vancouver & BC are all about inefficiency. Things might eventually improve if enough people someday start to see the growing gap between what most cities allow vs. stubborn Vancouver.

https://metropolisfilm.fandom.com/wiki/Joh_Frederson

Alphaville is one of the best cautionary stories about the AI run, totalitarian smart-city scenario. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Legacy

THX_1138 is the quintessential movie about AI & machines running an underground totalitarian city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138#Plot

Logan's_Run is another interesting totalitarian smart-city movie. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run_(film)#Plot

Blade_Runner is one of the best urban Sci-Fi movies ever made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Plot

Jacque_Fresco is one of many people throughout history with their own perspectives on civilization. https://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html?sh=4107813c607f Some interesting ideas, but perhaps with a utopian angle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity#Gameplay , 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWLClUwAHGc , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(1989_video_game)  

http://www.city-data.com/forum/religion-spirituality/845605-humans-originate-mars.html,
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_14.htm,
http://mars-earth.com/earthpage.htm

http://fusionanomaly.net/orion.html, http://fusionanomaly.net/bladerunner.html,
http://vigilantcitizen.com/hidden-knowledge/connection-between-sirius-and-human-history

More about, UDL: https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=urban

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/9/11/3318910/nasa-scientist-believes-we-could-all-be-in-a-video-game

Civilization_(computer_game)

Civilization_IV  

http://www.mindmined.com/public_library/nonfiction/jake_horsley_gnosticism_reborn.html ,
http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/10/19/ghost-shell-why-our-brains-will-never-live-matrix , 

https://kotaku.com/one-nasa-scientists-quest-to-prove-were-all-trapped-ins-5942400 , 

http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html  

The Universe seems to be a vast Multi-channel of space & time that originated from a central point of energy. But what or who started this Big_Bang of cosmic information? Its like a cosmic projection program running inside an immense planetarium. The energy of nature or part of a creators plan. Thus either nature or a conscious creator has set up a cosmic matrix of space & time. Humans are just beginning to try to understand how an intelligent force of creation set this all up. Computer models factor into the study of reality & VR helps to illustrate different phases & parts of the universe.

http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/34497/title/Building_The_Matrix,
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/11/universe-computer-simulation,
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-10/how-do-we-know-were-not-living-inside-massive-computer-simulation,
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628950.300-the-idea-we-live-in-a-simulation-isnt-science-fiction.html   

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Nick_Bostrom,

http://www.simulation-argument.com, http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix2.html, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality#Intermingled , Simcity, the Sims & more...
http://io9.com/5950543/physicists-say-there-may-be-a-way-to-prove-that-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2216189/Do-live-Matrix-researchers-say-way-prove-do.html ,
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143180-probing-the-matrix-is-our-universe-simulated-and-if-so-by-who

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2012/03/cosmic-computer-hypothesis.html
Computer modeling provides the best way to extrapolate copious amounts of data.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Comparison_of_pyramids_SMIL.svg

The Hundredth_monkey_effect isn't supposed to be true, but in backwards Vancouver & backwater BC, it does seem to be happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect#History

Almost everything in Vancouver is like a watered down knockoff. So many people from different backgrounds keep wanting to hold Vancouver back. The NO FUN CITY mentality keeps emerging, but that's just part of the phenomenon.

This reference blog is of a non profit nature.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=UTL 

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Harrison Ford torches Trump over climate policy despite owning and flying private jet

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15252211/Harrison-Ford-Trump-climate-policy-private-jets.html 

That's just like when some people having a few kids & cars, are saying that there are too many people on the planet. 

A lot of people will never have enough money to even own one car, let alone a private plane. There are some people that own 1 or a few cars and will be the first to complain that there are too many people with cars and trucks... 

I never could understand when some ferociously bearded Range Rover drivers look like they are homeless. Are they projecting the image that because they look like a bearded wildman or caveman, it's good for the environment? Are they symbolizing that even if they lost all of their investments or their job, they would still be driving a range Rover? 

Once I saw a guy sitting on the sidewalk with regular clothes with a sign asking for donations. Then I saw what looked like a caveman with scruffy cloths getting into his Jaguar, just a short distance away. Whether some guy makes a few hundred thousand dollars a year, or a few million, why would they want to look like they live on the street or the backwoods?

Then there are some billionaires who would like people in general to stop eating red meat and stop breeding so that they can have a better Champaign & caviar lifestyle. Then there is the AI server farm craze which uses so much energy, the owners wish that most of the "human herd" would cut down on their energy consumption. Yes, humans should give up and totally hand over their power to AgI control systems in order to have an inhumane world. 

If someone has done well enough to own their own plane, mansion, boat & luxury car, they should be proud and might even feel fortunate. But then they wish that there weren't so many consumers & breeders taking up the Earths resources, when it should be for the cream of the septic tank. 

Whether its the feudal system, kingdoms, Communism or crony capitalism, the top always enriches themselves and doesn't care if most people are closer to the sewer than those who live above it all.