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Anyways, I don't see adding datacenters will create that many new jobs in the region, but I hope that the demand for cloud computing IT specialists will rise in Western Canada.
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I mean, you can question the source because it's directly from Amazon but they would also know how many people they plan to hire and how expensive these things are to build.
And their calculations show an increase of $4.9 billion to Alberta's GDP due to the construction and operation of this facility. Interestingly, the scale of this operation is projected to be much larger than the existing one in Montreal.
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The in-region portion of the AWS investment in Alberta will sustain an estimated annual average of 871 FTE local jobs by 2037. Among them, 409 jobs will be supported through direct effects, 181 jobs will be supported through indirect effects, and 227 jobs will be supported through induced effects.
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(see page 14 and 15 here -- the doc also has existing data about their Montreal facility:
https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZ...a_Nov-2021.pdf)
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Do these firms view risk like the Cascadia plate in their locations? We're pretty lucky here in AB that all you really have to worry about is hail, the odd tornado, and flooding (oh and I guess forest fires but we aren't sticking these things in the mountains).
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Amazon says they do consider the physical security and possible natural disasters in their marketing materials on their website as reliability is a key aspect of their pitch to tech/business customers.