The massive one-gigawatt facility will be powered by Pembina Pipeline’s Greenlight Electricity Centre—a major natural-gas power plant in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton, that received a positive final investment decision last week. It is Meta’s first Canadian data centre. (The Logic)

Talking point: The Logic was the first to report Meta’s plans for a massive AI data-centre development in Alberta last year—although the tech giant and its partners had not publicly acknowledged Meta’s involvement until now. The Alberta government is courting Big Tech even as the sector faces growing backlash over data-centre development across the U.S. Meta’s Alberta project, and the Greenlight power plant that will supply it, will be built in an established heavy-industrial area surrounded by refineries and petrochemical facilities—potentially avoiding some of the conflicts and community opposition that have confronted projects closer to residential areas.

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