Meta says it will build its first data centre in Canada: a 1-gigawatt campus in central Alberta valued at C$13 billion (about US$9 billion). The company plans to locate the site in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton. The project is described as part of Meta’s broader data-centre build-out, which has included large-scale campuses such as its Hyperion facility in Louisiana. Meta characterizes the Alberta campus as a significant expansion of its global infrastructure, and it would become the company’s 33rd data centre. The sources also frame the investment in terms of Meta’s continued focus on expanding compute capacity to support its services and advertising platforms. While the reports focus on the announcement and planned scale, they do not provide detailed timelines, power-generation arrangements, or construction milestones in the excerpts provided.