Alberta Premier Offers Reassurances on Massive Meta Data Centre During Radio Show
The project would use 1 gigawatt of electricity and includes a $4.6 billion natural gas plant, officials said.
- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith reassured residents about Meta's $13-billion data centre planned north of Edmonton, stating it will not raise utility bills or strain the water supply.
- The data centre will use water equivalent to that of a golf course and employs a closed-loop cooling system to prevent local water draw.
- Surplus energy will power the data centre until the Greenlight Electricity Centre's new natural gas plant begins operation in 2030.
- Meta plans to invest $60 million in local infrastructure improvements, including roads and water systems in Sturgeon County.
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Alberta Fact Check: Predictions of economic doom from federalists simply aren't matching reality
Subhead:Companies like Meta conduct exhaustive political, legal and economic due diligence before deciding to invest $13 billion into a project.# While critics like federalist operative Ken Boessenkool insist Alberta's independence debate is scaring away investors, the evidence points in the opposite direction. I imagine a lot less. https://t.co/8WMmd8rowN— Ken Boessenkool (@KenBoessenkool) July 10, 2026 Meta just announced a $13-billion inv…
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Alberta premier offers reassurances on massive Meta data centre during radio show
Danielle Smith spent much of her Saturday call-in radio show reassuring Albertans about tech giant Meta's plan to build a massive data centre in the province.
The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will build its first data center in Canadian territory. It will be its 33rd installation and responds to the global race for the scarcest resource of the decade: computing capacity.
Why did Meta pick Alberta to build its $13B AI data centre in Canada?
Tech giant Meta plans to spend $13 billion to build an AI-focused data centre in Alberta’s Sturgeon County. This will be Meta’s first data centre in Canada, its largest outside of the U.S. Experts attribute this move to Alberta’s climate and also have some suggestions for the tech giant. Marina Freire Gormaly, Associate Professor at York University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to discuss the technology p…
Big AI push in Canada: Meta picks Alberta for its biggest data centre yet - The Canadian Media
IBNS-CMEDIA: Tech giant Meta has announced plans to build a new 1GW data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, marking the company’s first such facility in Canada. The new data center will be designed to support Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and help power the technologies used by billions of people worldwide to connect, build communities, grow businesses, and experience its range of digital services and wearables, the company sa…
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