Meta Sturgeon County
Meta · Alberta Industrial Heartland
- Planned IT
- 1 GW
- Remaining
- 1 GW
- $ / kW·mo
- $56
- White space
- 3.7M ft²
Inventory
0% occupiedPower
1 GWcampus
1 GW pipeline · 0 MW in use
White space
3.7M ft²total
2M ft² free · 1.7M ft² occupied
346k m² · 186k m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
Power cost
$56/kW·mo
6.8¢ industrial · 7.6¢ after PUE 1.12
- Per MW·year
- $667k
- This site · 1 GW
- $667M/yr
- 80 kW rack
- $4,448/mo
2.1× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $353M/yr less.
AESO Industrial Heartland · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2028
- Renewable match
- 18%
- Rack density
- 80 kW
- PUE
- 1.121.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- AESO / Altalink. 970 MW interim large-load allocation plus dedicated Greenlight CCGT (932 MW FID, path 1,864 MW). Capital Power 250 MW ESA.
Cooling
Plant
Closed-loop liquid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
80 kW
H100-eq
80k
WUE
0.05 L/kWh
2026 · 438k m³/yr at 1 GW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Meta closed-loop disclosure, Sturgeon County.
Closed-loop campus cooling charged once at construction. Meta: effectively zero makeup water after fill — a large radiator, not evaporative towers.
Network carriers
6On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
1Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada
Highway 643 and Highway 825, Sturgeon County, AB
53.796°, -113.318° · North America
Tenants / users
Meta AI, core products
Notes
First Meta data center in Canada, 33rd globally. C$13 billion, 1 GW IT, 1,900 acres. AESO 970 MW interim allocation, Capital Power 250 MW ESA (H2 2028), Greenlight 932 MW gas CCGT FID (2030) with AUC envelope to 1,864 MW. Closed-loop, not Hydro-Québec. Complements AWS ca-west-1 Calgary — Alberta gas-AI, not Québec hydro-AI.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.