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Every Alberta AI data centre we know of, and where it actually stands.

The one fact almost nobody puts on the page: Alberta’s grid operator will connect just 1,200 megawatts of new large load through 2028, and it is already fully allocated to two Edmonton-area projects. Behind them, projects have requested roughly 16 to 21 gigawatts. For scale, all of Alberta on its busiest day uses about 12 gigawatts. So most of these projects are not waiting on money. They are waiting on power.
Source: Alberta Electric System Operator (interim large-load approach and project tracker).

A headline number usually belongs to one of four categories. We label every project with which one, because “$X billion is coming” means something very different in each:

Committed
Approved and building, money in the ground.
Announced
Budget stated, no shovel yet.
Target
A provincial ambition, not a cheque.
Rejected
Turned down or stalled. The part nobody covers.

Meta AI data centre

Sturgeon County, north of Edmonton
Proposed
Approved
Construction
Operating

Committed  ·  Backer: Meta  ·  Size: About 1 GW  ·  Investment: More than C$13 billion

Ground broken. This is the one that is genuinely real and building, and it is also one of only two projects holding a share of the grid's interim large-load allocation. More than 3,000 construction workers at peak, and, by Meta and the province's own figures, just over 300 permanent jobs.

Source: Meta groundbreaking announcement

Wonder Valley AI Data Centre Park

Greenview Industrial Gateway, near Grande Prairie
Proposed
Approved
Construction
Operating

Announced  ·  Backer: O'Leary Ventures + M.D. of Greenview  ·  Size: 1.4 GW phase one, 2,500 acres  ·  Investment: Up to about $70 billion over its life

Pitched as potentially the world's largest AI data centre park, and planned to run off-grid on natural gas plus geothermal, which is one way around the grid bottleneck. Still an early-stage vision, not a build.

Source: Alberta Major Projects registry

Four announced facilities (Olds, Bonnyville, Calgary, Edmonton)

Four sites across Alberta
Proposed
Approved
Construction
Operating

Announced  ·  Backer: Various  ·  Size: 240 MW combined  ·  Investment: C$1.26 billion combined

Announced with budgets stated, but no shovels yet. A useful reminder that most of the numbers in the news are plans, not construction.

Source: Alberta Major Projects registry

Synapse data centre (Olds)

Near Olds
Rejected / stalled

Rejected  ·  Backer: Synapse Data Centre Inc.  ·  Size: Large-scale, with its own gas power plant  ·  Investment: ~C$10 billion

The Alberta Utilities Commission rejected the on-site power plant twice: first in March 2026 on procedural and evidentiary grounds, then again in August 2026. This is the part of the story that rarely makes the news: not every announcement gets approved.

Source: The Narwhal

Rocky View County campus

Rocky View County
Rejected / stalled

Rejected  ·  Backer: Proponent  ·  Size: ~1,100-acre campus  ·  Investment: Not proceeding

County councillors voted it down 6 to 1 in September 2025 after residents organized against it. Community opposition and zoning now matter to whether these projects happen almost as much as power does.

Source: Maclean's

This tracker is a work in progress. Every figure here traces to a named source, and we are still confirming a few against the original filings. We will add projects, correct mistakes, and note changes as they happen. Know of one we are missing, or a stage that has moved? Tell us.