Meta will build its first Canadian data centre, a C$13 billion, 1-gigawatt campus in Alberta’s Sturgeon County powered by a new natural-gas plant.

What will be Canada's largest data centre campus in Sturgeon Country, about 35 km north of Edmonton, will be geared towards AI workloads.

We’re breaking ground on a new 1GW, AI-optimized data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta — our first data center in Canada and 33rd in our global fleet.

Company will also invest $1bn in local infrastructure improvements