{"id":789770,"date":"2026-07-09T04:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789770\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:35:14","slug":"meta-to-build-first-data-center-in-canada-in-expansion-of-global-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789770\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to build first data center in Canada in expansion of global fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms will invest around $10 billion to build its first data center in Canada as the company expands its infrastructure to support its artificial intelligence ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Sturgeon County, Alberta-based data center will have one gigawatt of power capacity \u2014 the equivalent of the power used by around 750,000 homes \u2014 and will be largely run on natural gas-fired power. Meta said it\u2019s funding the new electrical generation, which will be connected to Alberta\u2019s grid.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will require 3,000 construction workers, and once complete, will create 300 full-time jobs, Meta said in a statement on Wednesday. The data center will be Meta\u2019s largest outside the U.S., according to Gary Demasi, Meta\u2019s vice president of data center development and strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta Platforms will invest around $10 billion to build its first data center in Canada as the company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,9564,2096,5472,2746,281,44,1942,3632],"class_list":["post-789770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-data-centers","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}