Meta invests $9B in 1 GW AI campus in Alberta with $42.3M in local infrastructure funding

Type: Investment · Technology: Data Center · Country: Canada · Value: $9B · Announced: 2026-07-09

Meta announced a $9 billion investment in a 1 GW AI campus in Sturgeon County, Alberta, marking one of the largest AI infrastructure investments disclosed in 2026. The project, expected to employ 3,000 construction workers at peak and 300 permanent employees, includes $42.3 million in local road and water infrastructure funding. Meta collaborated with Greenlight Limited Partnership, AltaLink, Capital Power, and the Alberta Electric System Operator to secure energy needs years in advance, highlighting a shift in hyperscaler strategy toward power-path control. The campus will use a closed-loop liquid cooling system with dry cooling, eliminating operational water use for cooling, and will match 100% of its annual electricity use with clean energy additions to Alberta's grid. Meta emphasized paying full costs of energy use to avoid shifting infrastructure costs onto other utility customers, while also funding new generation and grid infrastructure to improve reliability across the Alberta grid.

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