This is where cold hard facts give way to the hottest of takes, mostly mine I suppose. I’m the editor, Marshall Jones.

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We’ve revealed a few different takes on data centres, something we want to understand more about.

Kamloops has three of them already. They don’t employ many people and they don’t contribute to the community, they’re mostly vacant buildings consuming great amounts of power in an industrial park.

But those bugs are, in other ways, features, as our Story of the Day today points out.

This is going to become a bigger issue as more data centres start being built and Kamloops is in a unique position to take advantage. Unique because of its geography but also because it has something the Okanagan doesn’t — access to power in the first place.

This a Canadian story, so of course the debate in Kamloops is not on how to take advantage but whether they should.

We’re curious about all sides of this, what’s your take? Email me at mjones@infonews.ca.

Marshall Jones

Managing Editor

iN RESPONSE

iN RESPONSE to Monday’s newsletter opinion-editorial on data centres

They may not employ a lot of people but presumably they pay property taxes which reduces the tax load on the people who live in Kamloops.

— Ronald Scott via email

Once banned in Vernon, MMA series back for another round

And why was it banned in Vernon? That was after an “in camera” (that means secret and can’t be revealed to the public) presentation by RCMP to City Council. The thrust of this this presentation was allegedly that organized crime somehow controlled MMA. The fact that the contents of this presentation were a secret effectively made it impossible for local MMA clubs to respond.

— William Mastop via iNFOnews.ca

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