Meta Breaks Ground on its 1st Canadian Data Center
Meta (META) is breaking ground on its first Canadian data center, a 1-gigawatt AI-optimized facility in Sturgeon County, Alberta, in a project that will involve an investment of more than 13 billion Canadian dollars (US$9.18 billion), the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The facility will be Meta's 33rd data center globally and is designed to support the company's artificial intelligence workloads as it expands AI capabilities across its products and services. Meta said the project will employ about 3,000 construction workers at peak activity and create more than 300 permanent operational jobs once the facility is completed. The company also said it will invest about 60 million Canadian dollars in local infrastructure improvements and provide grants and funding to nonprofit organizations in the surrounding community. Meta said it has worked with utility and grid partners, including Greenlight Limited Partnership, AltaLink, Capital Power, and the Alberta Electric System Operator, to develop the infrastructure needed for the project. The company said it will fully fund new electricity generation and grid infrastructure to support the data center and that the.
Meta (META) is breaking ground on its first Canadian data center, a 1-gigawatt AI-optimized facility in Sturgeon County, Alberta, in a project that will involve an investment of more than 13 billion Canadian dollars (US$9.18 billion), the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
The facility will be Meta's 33rd data center globally and is designed to support the company's artificial intelligence workloads as it expands AI capabilities across its products and services.
Meta said the project will employ about 3,000 construction workers at peak activity and create more than 300 permanent operational jobs once the facility is completed.
The company also said it will invest about 60 million Canadian dollars in local infrastructure improvements and provide grants and funding to nonprofit organizations in the surrounding community.
Meta said it has worked with utility and grid partners, including Greenlight Limited Partnership, AltaLink, Capital Power, and the Alberta Electric System Operator, to develop the infrastructure needed for the project.
The company said it will fully fund new electricity generation and grid infrastructure to support the data center and that the.