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Varcoe: Meta unveils massive $13B, gigawatt-scale development in Alberta, Canada's largest data centre

The massive data centre campus in Sturgeon Country, about 35 kilometres north of Edmonton, will be geared towards AI workloads

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It’s taken more than two years, but Alberta has attracted its first big hyperscaler — U.S. giant Meta Platforms — to develop the country’s largest data centre.

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Meta, owner of Facebook, unveiled plans Wednesday to build a massive data centre campus in Sturgeon Country, about 35 kilometres north of Edmonton, kick-starting one of the largest private-sector investments in the province.

It’s expected to cost more than $13 billion to build — in addition to $4.6 billion for a new gas-fired electricity generating plant being built by Pembina Pipeline, Kineticor Asset Management and its partners to power it.

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Meta’s investment figure does not include the costs of high-tech computer chips needed in these AI-focused facilities, which would push the number far........

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