Alberta Data Centre WatchIndependent public-interest tracking

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See where Alberta's data centre buildout is happening.

Explore an interactive map and verified directory of proposed, approved, under-construction, and operating data centres across Alberta.

Evidence standardPrimary sources firstADCW labels public records, proponent statements, projections, and context separately.

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Data centre projects across Alberta

Verified project dataEvery record with a verifiable site is mapped. Treaty geography is a best-effort match between available boundary information and each project's published location. It provides geographic context only and does not identify affected communities or consultation.

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Verified records
52
30 active + 19 operating + 3 inactive
Active buildout
30
Used for the forward-looking totals below
Municipalities
26
Across all verified records in 9 Alberta regions

Why focus on 30 projects? This graphic measures what Alberta may add next: proposed, approved, and under-construction projects. The 19 operating facilities and 3 inactive proposals remain in the full directory, but are excluded here so existing use is not mixed with proposed new demand.

The buildout behind the buildout

The data centres are only part of the picture.

Large data centre campuses create new electricity demand. Meeting it can require dedicated power plants, gas pipelines, substations, cooling systems, and water infrastructure built alongside the server buildings.

What the new demand could mean

Published data centre demand equals 127% of Alberta's 2025 average electricity demand.

This total combines published data centre loads with AESO grid-connection requests where no project load is available. Together, they represent the published maximum from 20 of 30 active projects, not a forecast that every project will be built or operate at full capacity.

Alberta demand comparison: AESO 2025 Annual Market Statistics.

One project, several footprints

A campus number rarely tells the whole story.

Old scale versus new scale

One proposed data centre campus can equal hundreds of today's facilities.

1 GW1,000 MW

About 10.5 terawatt-hours (TWh) in one year

If a facility drew 1.2 GW continuously for a year, it would use slightly more electricity than was delivered across Calgary in all of 2025.

This illustrates the proposed maximum at full demand every hour, not the project's expected or actual use.ENMAX reports 9.8 TWh delivered in Calgary in 2025.

Read the label, not just the number. Data centre load, grid capacity and on-site generation describe different things and are tracked separately.

Putting water demand in human terms

What does 13.8 million L/day mean?

1 m³1,000 L

This total comes from only 5 of 30 active projects.It combines comparable projected or proposed daily volumes, including water published for associated power plants. This figure will update as new project information becomes available. It is not measured province-wide use.

This comparison uses Alberta's 2021 residential average of 195 litres per person per day, the latest province-wide figure published by Statistics Canada. It compares volume only and does not mean the project water is potable, comes from a municipal system, or is entirely consumed.View the Statistics Canada data.

Read the label, not just the number. Water licensed, withdrawn, consumed and returned describe different things.

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About the project

Evidence before rhetoric.

Alberta Data Centre Watch is an independent public-interest project that makes fragmented information about Alberta data centre development easier to find, compare, and understand.

ADCW is not affiliated with any government, regulator, municipality, political party, or project proponent. It tracks material data centre infrastructure across AI, hyperscale, high-performance computing, colocation, cryptocurrency, and other workloads, plus directly related power infrastructure when the connection can be documented. Ordinary internal server rooms fall outside the current scope.

Primary sources come first. Company and government claims are attributed to the people making them. Unknown information stays visible, and every material summary should lead back to an original record.

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