Meta Sturgeon Data Centre

Also known as Meta Alberta AI data center

Operated by Meta Platforms at Sturgeon County Data Centre Site .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role	Part	Supplier at build	Quantity	Confidence	Source
Integrator	- Meta builds the Sturgeon County data center	Meta Platforms METANASDAQ	-	Reported	w.media

AI datacenter metrics

Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.

Metric	Value	As of	Basis	Note	Source
Stated investment	9.17 USD bn	2026-07-08	Operator stated	C$13 billion converted to about US$9.17 billion by the press at the time of the announcement.	thestar.com.my w.media
Facility power	1,800 MW	2026-07-08	Design target	Alberta government: campus power draw at full build-out 1,800 MW; Phase 1 AESO-approved load is 970 MW. Meta describes a 1 GW facility scalable to 1.8 GW.	alberta.ca w.media

How it is powered

Source	Provider	MW	Status	As of	Basis	Note	Source link
On-site gas	-	932	planned	2026-07	Operator stated	Pembina, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Kineticor Greenlight Electricity Centre: 932 MW nameplate combined-cycle gas plant, about 150 MMcf/day, in service in the second half of 2030.	alberta.ca thestar.com.my
Grid	-	250	contracted	2026-07	Operator stated	Capital Power energy supply agreement with Meta for 250 MW, more than 10 years; the Star describes it as interim supply from existing gas infrastructure until Greenlight starts.	alberta.ca thestar.com.my

How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.

The read

Meta's first Canadian data center, an AI-optimized 1 GW facility in Sturgeon County, Alberta, announced on 8 July 2026 with a 13 billion Canadian dollar investment, closed-loop liquid cooling with dry cooling, and a groundbreaking reported by 11 July 2026. Alberta's government page gives an AESO-approved Phase 1 load of 970 MW and a full build-out campus draw of 1,800 MW (grid plus on-site generation) on about 1,750 acres, backed by Pembina's 932 MW Greenlight Electricity Centre gas plant (second half of 2030) and a 250 MW, 10-year-plus supply agreement with Capital Power. Meta names no accelerator type or count; the tier is reported.

Timeline

2026-07-08 Announced source

Site & facility

Sturgeon County Data Centre Site

Location: Sturgeon County, AB, Canada
Utility: AESO (Alberta)
Cooling: Closed-loop liquid cooling with dry cooling

alberta.ca w.media

Change history

2026-10-09 Added Meta Sturgeon Data Centre

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
w.media	names system only	-
alberta.ca	names system only	-

Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.