{"id":793433,"date":"2026-07-10T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:33:11","slug":"meta-data-centre-in-alberta-to-start-up-ahead-of-adjacent-greenlight-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793433\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta data centre in Alberta to start up ahead of adjacent Greenlight power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will be four years before a new natural gas-fired power plant north of Edmonton is operating and able to serve the massive data centre Meta Platforms Inc. is planning nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Meta spokesperson Stacey Yip says the tech giant expects the $13-billion-plus data centre will be online in the next two to three years, though no exact timeline has been set.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Meta has rights to connect to Alberta\u2019s grid ahead of the Greenlight Electricity Centre starting up and may enter into agreements with other suppliers if needed.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Alberta\u2019s grid operator set aside 1,200 megawatts of capacity for large-load projects like data centres until 2028 to ensure the province\u2019s electrical system is not overburdened.<\/p>\n<p>This week Capital Power announced a long-term energy supply agreement for the Meta data centre, with 250 megawatts of electricity available in the second half of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The $4.6-billion Greenlight Electricity Centre \u2014 a partnership between Pembina Pipeline Corp., Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Kineticor Asset Management \u2014 will produce 932 megawatts of power, with the ability to eventually double that.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will be four years before a new natural gas-fired power plant north of Edmonton is operating and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-793433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793433","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=793433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}