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Chants of “f–k AI” filled Hamilton’s city council chambers ahead of a raucous planning meeting Thursday morning as dozens of people packed the public gallery and over a hundred waited in the halls outside.
Outside, hundreds of people gathered before and during the meeting, chanting “Hands off Bayfront” and “You can’t replace us.”
The local planning tribunal is set to make a decision on whether development company Slate Asset Management could split a roughly 324-hectare lot it owns into two parts.
In Slate’s planning application, it notes one possible use on the smaller plot of land would be “hyperscale and enterprise data centres.”
The possible construction of a data centre has galvanized community opposition. City staff said the 1,688 people that submitted comments on the land-severance application was possibly a record.
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