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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.
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Added intervener expert evidence challenging the cumulative-effects review; not an AUC finding.
Corrected the location to the Warburg area in Brazeau County; the map remains approximate.
Corrected the location to the Lacombe area in Red Deer County; the map remains approximate.
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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.
Power
Published data centre demand equals 127% of Alberta's 2025 average electricity demand.
Alberta demand comparison: AESO 2025 Annual Market Statistics.
Read the label, not just the number. Data centre load, grid capacity, and on-site generation describe different things and are tracked separately.
Alberta's existing data centres are typically measured in megawatts. Some proposed data centre campuses exceed one gigawatt. The difference is not incremental. It is hundreds of times larger.
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.
One portfolio: 4.5 GW. Beacon's announced six-site Alberta portfolio alone equals about 44% of Alberta's 2025 average demand.
Portfolio announcement, not operating demand or a guarantee that every site will be built.
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.
Putting water demand in human terms
1 m³1,000 L
13.8 million L/day
Residential water use for about 70,700 Albertans
in a single dayThis total comes from only 5 of 30 active projects.It combines comparable projected or proposed daily water volumes, including water published for related power plants. 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.
Paired with 1.494 GW of proposed on-site generation.
View evidence profile →Projected for the initial phase, including the data centre and associated power plant. The highest comparable published daily figure in ADCW's provincial water total, not measured operating consumption or a final approved allocation.
View evidence profile →Shows how much smaller many existing data centre facilities are than the new data centre campuses now being proposed.
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Compare published records by status, municipality, operator, and available evidence.
Open the Alberta data centre project directory →Learn what energy, water, environmental, regulatory, and economic claims actually tell us.
Read about data centre impacts and issues →Follow ADCW summaries back to municipal, provincial, regulatory, and proponent records.
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Use the action guide →Added Dr. Brad Stelfox's intervener expert evidence challenging Beacon's cumulative-effects review. The evidence is attributed to the expert and is not presented as an AUC finding.
Corrected Alsike to the Warburg-area / Brazeau County record using KALiNA's project table and AESO's municipality assignment. The map remains approximate, and no capacity or status was changed.
Corrected Myers to the Lacombe-area / Red Deer County record using KALiNA's project table and AESO's municipality assignment. The map remains approximate, and no capacity or status was changed.
Added the October 8 to December 9, 2024 public-process chronology and Greenview's March 25, 2025 land-agreement authorization. The record now distinguishes what municipal minutes establish from the LOI details reported from access-to-information records.
Added the documented 50 MW cryptocurrency-oriented proposal, two closed Hoole power-plant applications, the AUC's land and consultation concerns, and independent gas-asset records. Construction, operation, and the link between the 50 MW data centre and 9.5 MW plant remain unconfirmed.
Added a full profile explaining what is approved, the three different electricity figures, and the grid-planning dates. Added TransAlta's July filing, which still makes development conditional on approvals and final agreements. Water needs, noise at nearby homes, and an opening date remain unconfirmed.
Added Clark Builders' approximately 1.6 GW compute-capacity and 2.9-million-sq.-ft. disclosures. The capacity conflict remains unresolved; Meta's 1 GW announcement stays the headline figure, and the builder's size is not treated as an approved footprint.
About the project
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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