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These figures came from the project brief and were not independently re-read from their source when the site was built. Everything else in the table below was.
A connection request is not a built project. Requests can be withdrawn, resized, duplicated or refused.
Alberta Electric System Operator ↗ System operator accessed 2026-08-16
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This is requested grid connection capacity as of June 2025, not electricity that will be consumed. It is the size of the queue, not the size of the future.
Alberta Electric System Operator ↗ System operator accessed 2026-08-16
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An interim total allocated across Phase 1 while longer-term arrangements are developed — not a limit per project.
Alberta Electric System Operator ↗ System operator accessed 2026-08-16
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AESO offers this as a size comparison only. It does not mean any single project "uses more power than Edmonton" — compare the bars, and read what each bar measures.
Alberta Electric System Operator ↗ System operator accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
A headline "1 gigawatt facility" describes the scale the campus is designed toward. It is not a measured load, and it is not the same as the grid allocation below.
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
Listed by Alberta Major Projects as $13.0B for the data centre. The adjacent Greenlight power plant is a separate project with a separate budget — do not add them together and call the total "Meta’s investment".
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
This is the land the campus sits on, in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. It is NOT the size of the buildings.
Meta ↗ Company disclosure accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
1,750 acres × 4,046.86 m²/acre = 7,082,005 m² ≈ 7.08 km² ≈ 708 hectares.
Unit conversion of the announced acreage. Campus land, not building footprint.
This website Technical reference accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
Meta describes this as its largest data centre outside the United States. This is floor space inside buildings — roughly 4% of the campus land area.
Meta ↗ Company disclosure accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
2,900,000 ft² × 0.092903 m²/ft² = 269,419 m² ≈ 269,000 m².
This website Technical reference accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
A grid allocation is permission to draw up to this much from the Alberta grid. It is not a generator, and it is not a measurement of what the site will actually consume.
Global News / The Canadian Press ↗ Journalism accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
This is a SEPARATE adjacent natural-gas project (Pembina / Kineticor), reported at ~$4.6B and expected in service in the second half of 2030 — after the data centre is running. Generation capacity is what a plant can produce; it is not the data centre’s load.
Global News / The Canadian Press ↗ Journalism accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
A contract for electricity available in the second half of 2028. A supply agreement is a commercial arrangement, not a fourth power plant to be added to the others.
Global News / The Canadian Press ↗ Journalism accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
A possible eventual campus scale, well beyond the announced first phase. Treat as an upper bound under discussion, not a commitment.
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
Peak, not sustained. Construction employment ends when construction ends.
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
Large data centres are capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive: billions of dollars, hundreds of permanent staff.
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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Beacon AI Centers — Indus Project
“The total capability of the project would be 1,494 megawatts.” This is generation capability applied for — it is NOT the data-hall load, and the application is still under consideration.
Alberta Utilities Commission ↗ Regulator accessed 2026-08-17
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Beacon AI Centers — Indus Project
Under normal operating scenarios approximately 1,200 MW would supply co-located, on-site AI/HPC data halls. The other ~294 MW is not data-hall supply.
Alberta Utilities Commission ↗ Regulator accessed 2026-08-17
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Beacon AI Centers — Indus Project
Proceeding 30524. Virtual hearing scheduled to commence 9:00 a.m. Re-checked 17 August 2026 and the schedule was unchanged. Hearing dates still move — re-check the AUC page on the morning of the talk.
Alberta Utilities Commission ↗ Regulator accessed 2026-08-17
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Synapse Data Center Power Plant
Proposed generation to power the on-site data-centre load.
Alberta Utilities Commission ↗ Regulator accessed 2026-08-16
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Synapse Data Center Power Plant
Backup capacity exists to survive an outage. It is not intended to run continuously, and it must never be added to the generation figure as though the site produced 3,200 MW.
Alberta Utilities Commission ↗ Regulator accessed 2026-08-16
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Synapse Data Center Power Plant
“The power plant will not be connected to the Alberta Interconnection Electric System but will be used to power the on-site data centre load.” This is the behind-the-meter model.
Alberta Utilities Commission ↗ Regulator accessed 2026-08-16
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Synapse Data Center Power Plant
As of 16 June 2026 the AUC suspended current process steps while preparing additional information requests. No full hearing schedule has been determined.
Alberta Utilities Commission ↗ Regulator accessed 2026-08-16
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Beacon Heartland AI Hub
Proposed; approvals still being sought. Listed completion by 2027.
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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Technologies New Energy / Data District — Phase 1
Combined across four separate sites (Olds, Bonnyville, Calgary, Edmonton) — not a single 240 MW facility.
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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Technologies New Energy / Data District — Phase 1
Combined budget across all four Phase 1 facilities.
Government of Alberta — Major Projects ↗ Provincial government accessed 2026-08-16
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NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 reference configuration, used here ONLY to show what a dense modern AI rack looks like. No Alberta project has publicly confirmed this hardware. Rack counts and chip counts for Alberta projects are not publicly disclosed.
NVIDIA ↗ Technical reference accessed 2026-08-16
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105 m × 68 m = 7,140 m² (standard pitch dimensions).
This website Technical reference accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
7,082,005 m² ÷ 7,140 m² = 991.9 ≈ 992 pitch areas.
Land area of the whole campus — roads, buffers, substations and empty ground included.
This website Technical reference accessed 2026-08-16
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Meta Sturgeon Data Centre
269,419 m² ÷ 7,140 m² = 37.7 ≈ 38 pitch areas.
The building floor space is about one twenty-sixth of the campus land. Confusing these two numbers is the single most common data-centre reporting error.
This website Technical reference accessed 2026-08-16
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