Meta Platforms To Build $9 Billion A.I. Data Centre In Canada

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Thu, July 9, 2026 astatine 8:17 AM CDT 2 min read

U.S. Technology elephantine Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: $META) is readying to physique its archetypal artificial quality (A.I.) information centre successful Canada. 

In a blog post, Meta said that it is gathering a one-gigawatt information centre successful Alberta that volition outgo the institution $9 cardinal U.S. and instrumentality 3 years to construct. 

It volition beryllium Meta's 33rd information centre and comes arsenic the institution rapidly expands to conscionable request for A.I. infrastructure and services.

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Alberta is viewed arsenic an charismatic spot for improvement owed to the province's vigor resources and affable regulatory environment. 

The Meta information centre volition beryllium located successful Sturgeon County, Alberta extracurricular Edmonton. It is an country that is zoned for concern use.

Meta Platforms, which is champion known for its societal media platforms specified arsenic Facebook and Instagram, besides precocious announced a caller unreality computing business. 

The maturation and pivot into caller concern areas comes arsenic Meta struggles to catch-up to A.I. leaders specified arsenic Anthropic and Google genitor institution Alphabet (NASDAQ: $GOOGL).

Meta has forecast that it volition walk up to $145 cardinal U.S. successful superior expenditures connected A.I. this year. Meta is besides racing to vie against Microsoft (NASDAQ: $MSFT) and Amazon (NASDAQ: $AMZN) successful unreality computing. 

In the blog post, Meta said that the Alberta information centre volition enactment much than 3,000 operation jobs astatine its highest and volition impact section investments.

The institution led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it is moving with Alberta vigor firms, including Altalink, Capitol Power, and the Alberta Electric System Operator. 

META banal is down 18% implicit the past 12 months and trading astatine $603.12 U.S. per share.