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Meta Plans $9.17bn Alberta Data Centre With 1GW Power Target

BySendTech Times Cloud & Infrastructure DeskNewsroom-edited, source-reviewed coverage|Source: Data Center Dynamics
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Meta plans a 1GW data-centre campus in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Data Center Dynamics reported, with CA$13 billion in expected investment and Project Greenlight power work still needing public approval detail.

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Meta Plans $9.17bn Alberta Data Centre With 1GW Power Target
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Meta Plans 1GW Alberta Data Centre

Meta is moving its Canadian data-centre plan straight to gigawatt scale.

Data Center Dynamics reported that the company plans a 1GW campus in Sturgeon County, Alberta, with an expected investment of CA$13 billion, or US$9.17bn, and the option to scale the site to 1.8GW of capacity.

The project would be Meta's first data centre in Canada and its 33rd facility globally, according to the report.

Meta revealed the plan on July 6 alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and provincial officials.

The facility is expected to use a closed-loop liquid cooling system and support 3,000 construction jobs plus 300 operational jobs once online.

Power Plan Puts Project Greenlight Behind The Campus

Power access is the main operating detail in the Alberta plan.

Data Center Dynamics cited Meta data-centre vice president Rachel Peterson as saying the company selected Sturgeon County for access to energy and infrastructure, a strong talent base and community partners.

Peterson said Meta is fully funding new generation and grid infrastructure in Alberta and will continue to match the facility's electricity use with 100 percent clean and renewable energy.

The report named Greenlight Limited Partnership, AltaLink, Capital Power and the Alberta Electric System Operator as partners referenced by Meta.

Project Greenlight is listed as a CA$4.6 billion, or US$3.24bn, natural gas-fired electricity generation facility with 970MW of capacity.

The Alberta government release also said Meta is investing around CA$60 million, or US$42.3m, in local infrastructure improvements, while Pembina Pipeline Corporation, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Kineticor are involved in the power project.

Alberta Has Several Gigawatt-Scale Data-Centre Proposals

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith framed the project as an artificial-intelligence investment and said it would produce yearly revenue while improving electricity reliability and affordability.

The Meta site is not the only gigawatt-scale data-centre proposal in Alberta.

Data Center Dynamics reported that Synapse Data Centre proposed a January 2026 plan for a 1GW development with ten 100MW buildings and about two million square feet of space.

The report placed Meta's Alberta plan beside the company's wider compute expansion.

It said Meta has given this year's capex outlook as a US$120bn to US$135bn range and created a Meta Compute division this year to grow data-centre capacity.

The public record still leaves the construction start date, grid-connection approval and schedule, customer workload list, power-purchase contract, final power mix and first service date unresolved.

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