Meta Platforms starts construction on a 1-gigawatt artificial-intelligence data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, investing about CAD $13B (about $9.2B) as its 33rd global facility.The center will draw electricity roughly equal to 800K homes, will employ more than 3,000 construction workers at peak and about 300 permanent staff, and will use closed-loop liquid cooling with dry cooling to limit water use.Meta plans to underwrite new power with
Pembina and the
Greenlight Centre, working with
Greenlight LP,
Altalink,
Capitol Power and
AESO, but Alberta’s gas-heavy grid and environmental scrutiny raise questions about cloud revenue prospects.