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The story
Canada’s satirical news outlet “The Beaverton” ran a fake op-ed under the byline of Prime Minister Mark Carney, ironically titled “Canada must invest in AI now, before we miss our chance to lose all our money in the bubble crash.” After it was posted to the Canadian Lemmy community c/canada, several commenters admitted that just from the headline, they briefly thought, “wait, did Carney actually say this?” Others spotted the URL right away and immediately clocked it as satire, so reactions split depending on how far people got taken in. From there the thread drifted into industry speculation that AI company Anthropic is holding off on its own data center spending while bracing for CoreWeave’s finances to sour, plus some genuine griping about data centers actually being built in people’s hometowns.
Op-Ed: Canada must invest in AI now, before we miss our chance to lose all our money in the bubble crash — by Mark Carney
Source: thebeaverton.com / Read the original article here
What people said
Getting punk'd by the Beaver(ton) once in a while isn't so bad
Exactly, that insane facility is slated to get built right on my home island, and it genuinely pisses me off. I still live in the same province, just on the other side of the island.
Background and talking points
The Beaverton is often billed as Canada’s answer to The Onion, and this time it cooked up a satirical “op-ed” under the name of Mark Carney — who went from central bank governor to Canadian Prime Minister — ironically urging readers to invest before the AI bubble bursts. Since Carney really did serve as governor of both the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada before becoming PM, he carries genuine weight on both finance and AI investment, which makes the parody easy to mistake for something he’d actually say. What split the thread was whether people caught the joke instantly: some clocked it right away from the URL, while others got fooled by the headline alone. Meanwhile, alongside the joke, some real industry speculation crept in — the idea that Anthropic might be positioning itself to buy up data centers cheap once GPU cloud firms like CoreWeave run into trouble — along with genuine frustration from posters who have data centers actually being built in their own backyards. Easy to miss, but under the jokes, this thread carries some real unease about the AI investment boom.
*This article is a translated and edited excerpt from the overseas forum Lemmy c/canada thread “OP-ED – Canada must invest in AI now, before we miss our chance to lose all our money in the bubble crash, by Mark Carney.” Responsibility for the translation rests with this site’s editorial team.
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