{"id":25524,"date":"2026-07-09T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=25524"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:31:56","slug":"meta-plans-billions-for-first-ai-data-centre-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-plans-billions-for-first-ai-data-centre-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Plans Billions For First AI Data Centre In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than US$9.1 billion to build its first artificial intelligence data centre in Canada and its largest outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant.<\/p>\n<p>Meta said the data centre will use a closed-loop cooling system that won\u2019t draw water from surrounding sources. The company also plans to invest US$42 million in local infrastructure, including roads and water systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than US$9.1 billion to build its first artificial intelligence data centre in Canada and its largest outside the United States. The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant. Meta said the data centre will use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25528,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524\/revisions\/25528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}