Meta says it plans to spend about $13 billion to build its first AI data centre in Canada in Sturgeon County, Alberta. The planned facility is described as the largest Meta data centre outside the United States.
To supply the required electricity, Meta’s plan includes building a dedicated natural gas power plant at an estimated cost of $4.6 billion. The electricity project is set up through a consortium that includes Pembina Pipeline Ltd., according to one report. Together, the data centre and the new power generation infrastructure are intended to meet the facility’s energy demand.
The articles present the project as a major expansion of Meta’s infrastructure for artificial intelligence workloads in Canada, with the scale of the spending and the co-development of a new power supply highlighted as key elements. Both sources identify Sturgeon County as the site for the data centre and link the power needs to development of the natural gas plant, though they provide limited detail beyond those points.
