A new suburban high tech light industrial park. East of Queensway? University? Golf Course? Airport industrial park?

Where would we out such a thing? dunno.

Are we ready for such a thing? nope

Why not? dunno

Could we not see this coming? eh??? watcha talkin' here Bud? We supposed to be some sort of mindreaders?

The data centre will be located where the talent pool is located - a deep enough talent pool to support 200 higher-end IT jobs. Likely not PG.

Actually the University is well set up for this purpose. There is land outside of ring road, two different BCHydro power sources and high speed fiber optics. Just need the building, which they would have to build any how. The cooling can be assisted by our naturally cooler temps in an attempt to meet the LEED standards as well. Or use the heat from the server rooms to heat the research greenhouse.

Plus future IT people in training on hand. Hmmm, IPG get on this and contact Telus and explain to them what we have going on up here !

Prince George has an over abundance a I.T. people ranging in skill from entry level front end support all the way up to software developer and web developer.
Quite a few new technologies out there today actually were developed in PG most notably noratech.

I am not affiliated with noratech and never have been, just know my industry.

"the centre will be constructed in a modular fashion so that as the customer base grows so will the centre..... once fully constructed will employ about 200 people."

Starts with a 50 person module .... moves up to 200 in 20 years .... by which time the technology will change, the building will be sold as a roller blading centre and the IT people will become burger flippers.

Hey, we live in a rapidly changing world. Dont't forget that.

Gus says; "Starts with a 50 person module .... moves up to 200 in 20 years .... by which time the technology will change, the building will be sold as a roller blading centre and the IT people will become burger flippers."

Ya, better stay away from this one to avoid the disappointment.

remember, telus is already here with about 250 jobs growing to 325.

http://about.telus.com/cgi-bin/media_news_viewer.cgi?news_id=1048&mode=2

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How about Mackenzie? We may not have an abundance of high tech people here right now but we have low cost housing in spades!!

Mackenzie doesn't have the high speed fiber optics that PG has and not as reliable power. If anything the centre will probably head to Kelowna, as that is where the last big data centre went, not for Telus but another data centre company. Come on IPG get on the ball with this one.

How about selling Telus our "heritage" buildings for their needs and ask them to restore them to their original opulence? They're in the bowl.

This is exactly the kind of development we need to encourage here if we ever want to be more than lumberjacks and miners. This would give a reason for some of our youth to see Prince George as a place with a future for them. Hope city council does what it can to encourage Telus to make the investment here

This is exactly the kind of development we need to encourage here if we ever want to be more than lumberjacks and miners. This would give a reason for some of our youth to see Prince George as a place with a future for them. Hope city council does what it can to encourage Telus to make the investment here

Burnaby and Victoria?

Prince George is not in an earth quake area or on a fault zone, so do we qualify?

Employees would never find their way to work after being lost in a pothole all day.

Tee Hee, that's a good one a/c rider, and too true! There's a one ton diesel pick up truck down in the bottom of a pot hole at Opie and Nicholson, but I think the pothole patching maniacs from the CPG may have cold patched over it by now.
metalman.

alot of pessimistic comments.
200 more jobs will be good for BC, no matter where

It will go in Kamloops. They just do this to get concessions. Telus uses the 360 Networks fiber optic network, and the 360 Networks mesh system is centered on Kamloops in western Canada.

I would be very surprised if it went anywhere else, because it makes sense to build where they have the most infrastructure capacity. PG is not on the 360 Networks mesh system and therefor all our data would go through the bottleneck to Kamloops to get on the real highspeed network where packets of data can be directed through the system via the path of least resistance. PG is out of the loop on this one, because we weren't part of the real infrastructure build out.

If PG wanted to diversify then we should target industries we have strengths in and or we can create clusters for... pick a half dozen priority companies in each industry or cluster and find ways to create win win situations with them. In this way we are addressing the infrastructure needs that real industry requires... putting in place these things so that we are able to attract and or benefit from business opportunities when they arise.

PG has high speed internet access, but its one way with no redundancy, and is not part of the continental mesh system like what 360 Networks or Global Crossing provides.

IMO this is all part of the new Telus restricted internet they are launching next year. No more will you be able to visit any web site on the internet... the new system will only allow you to visit the top 200 sites as chosen by Telus, and thus limiting your ability to view alternate content.... Big media is pushing this so they can use the restrictions to boost profits on 'their web sites' with a captive audience. If it is not politically correct it will not be available with your internet connection starting in 2010 or 2011... Shaw is planning the same thing and other service providers like Uniserve that use the Telus network will be forced to offer the same content as Telus... our government is in on it because they are funded by the people that want to control the information... your right to access is the least of their concern.

The BC Supreme Court insider bankruptcy theft of the 360 Networks ownership from its shareholders and gift to the JPM Chase Manhattan bank as a new private entity was all part of this process. Our liberal government was in full support of this. The BC liberals claimed they were elected to deregulate and not to regulate (Pat Bells words), so enforcing laws against reciprocal revenue trading that was engineered in BC with 360 Networks (Global Crossing, World Com) and BC Hydro (Enron) would only signal to the Wall Street bankers that BC is not a player. In the states these were eventually seen as crimes and prosecuted as such, but 360 Networks got off because the BC Supreme Court had already done its job for them.

Without the BC government turning a blind eye as the regulator (BCSC)... and the BC Supreme Court giving the corruptions a seal of legitimacy... we never would have had a private bankster corporation controlling all our data infrastructure that enables future restrictions to our content availability. I still think in my opinion that the BC Supreme Court bankruptcy judges share the same off shore accounts as our BC liberals involved in the BC Rail privatization... CN was neck deep in both injustices....

Time Will Tell