CALGARY - A Meta Platforms Inc. executive garnered applause at a news conference this week after he boasted that a gargantuan data centre planned for north of Edmonton would use less water annually than a typical Alberta golf course.
The tech behemoth was announcing a $13-billion-plus investment in a complex the size of 33 Canadian Football League fields to be powered by a new natural gas plant that could eventually produce more electricity than what the City of Edmonton uses.











