Meta Commits ~$10B to Its First Canadian Data Center — a 1-Gigawatt Alberta AI Campus

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Meta will spend roughly $10B (The Globe and Mail cites up to $13B) on a 1-gigawatt data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta — its 33rd globally and first in Canada — largely powered by natural gas, creating 3,000 construction and 300 operational jobs over ~3 years. Meta is pre-loading capacity for AI demand it expects by 2028 and plans to rent idle GPUs to outside customers 'like empty airline seats,' underscoring the emerging surplus-compute rental model among hyperscalers.