Meta builds first data centre in Canada for $9.17B
Meta is building its first data centre in Canada — a 1‑gigawatt facility in Sturgeon County, Alberta — at a reported cost of $9.17 billion. The company says the site will be its 33rd data centre and will consume roughly as much electricity as 800,000 households. Meta plans to fully finance the project's power generation and grid infrastructure and has signed a long‑term offtake deal with Canadian pipeline operator Pembina, which is building a gas‑fired power plant in Sturgeon County scheduled to begin operations by the end of 2030. The plant is expected to require about 4.25 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. Observers and the article note concerns about the project's emissions because Alberta's electricity generation is heavily dependent on fossil gas and has substantially higher emissions than the Canadian average.
- •Meta will build its first data centre in Canada in Sturgeon County, Alberta.
- •The facility has a planned capacity of 1 gigawatt and will cost $9.17 billion.
- •It will be Meta's 33rd data centre and is expected to consume as much power as about 800,000 households.