Meta Puts Its Biggest Foreign Data Center in Alberta
The Sturgeon County site will draw over CAD $13 billion for a 1 gigawatt AI-optimized campus north of Edmonton.
- Investment tops CAD $13 billion, about US$9.1 billion, Meta's largest data center outside the US.
- The 1 gigawatt facility sits in Sturgeon County, Alberta, announced July 8, 2026.
- Meta calls it purpose-built for training and running its future AI models.
Why it mattersNine billion dollars of compute infrastructure now sits beyond US jurisdiction, answerable only to Meta's balance sheet.
Meta (official press release, about.fb.com) ↗ · Jul 9, 2026 · ✓ Checked