{"id":1019782,"date":"2026-07-10T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019782"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:58:33","slug":"meta-to-build-c13-billion-alberta-data-center-its-first-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/10\/meta-to-build-c13-billion-alberta-data-center-its-first-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data center, its first in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Meta announced Wednesday it will build a massive data center in central Alberta, the company&#8217;s first in \u200bCanada, as it rapidly builds out computing capacity \u200bto support the global AI boom. <\/p>\n<p>The 1-gigawatt data center, which will be built with the ability \u200bto scale up to 1.8 gigawatts, will be located in Sturgeon County and represents a total investment of C$13 billion, or $9.17 billion, Meta said. <\/p>\n<p>Meta has doubled down on AI, pledging hundreds of billions of dollars to build large AI data centers in the U.S. The Alberta announcement represents the company&#8217;s 33rd data center \u200cglobally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Meta announced Wednesday it will build a massive data center in central Alberta, the company&#8217;s first in \u200bCanada, as it rapidly builds out computing capacity \u200bto support the global AI boom. The 1-gigawatt data center, which will be built with the ability \u200bto scale up to 1.8 gigawatts, will be located in Sturgeon County and represents a total investment of C$13 billion, or $9.17 billion, Meta said. Meta has doubled down on AI, pledging hundreds of billions of dollars to build large AI data centers in the U.S. The Alberta announcement represents the company&#8217;s 33rd data center \u200cglobally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019809,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019782\/revisions\/1019809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}