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Varcoe: Data centre progress in Alberta set to speed up as 'all pieces of the broader puzzle' come together

'We didn't even look for data centres — those site selectors search the world to find the right places, and they found us,' said Sturgeon County Mayor Alanna Hnatiw

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Alberta Technology Minister Nate Glubish made a bold prediction two weeks ago at the Global Energy Show that’s worth remembering.

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He told the audience that Alberta could see massive gigawatt-scale data centre announcements being rolled out later this summer.

There are growing signs and tantalizing puzzle pieces it may happen sooner than later, potentially involving a large hyperscaler and billions of dollars of investment.

The day after Glubish spoke at the conference, the provincial government passed an order-in-council.

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It allows a little-known company to acquire lands in Sturgeon County, north of Edmonton, “for the purpose of constructing or operating a natural gas-fired turbine electricity generation plant to operate an adjacent data centre.”

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