{"id":793618,"date":"2026-07-10T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793618\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:23:09","slug":"meta-data-centre-in-alberta-to-start-operating-before-neighbouring-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793618\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta data centre in Alberta to start operating before neighbouring power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s grid operator set aside 1,200 megawatts of capacity for large-load projects like data centres until 2028 to ensure the province&#8217;s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-793618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793618","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=793618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}