Alberta Data Centre WatchIndependent public-interest tracking

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See where Alberta's data centre buildout is happening.

Explore verified projects, understand their potential impacts, and follow what has changed.

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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
67
43 active + 20 operating + 4 inactive
Active buildout
43
Used for the forward-looking totals below
Municipalities
33
Across all verified records in 10 Alberta regions
Verified records6743 active + 20 operating + 4 inactive
Published data centre demand13.0 GWFrom 20 active projects. If a project has not published its own power number, ADCW uses the public number it asked the grid for. Not a forecast.Published on-site generation8.3 GWFrom 20 active projects. Power plants proposed for a specific data centre. Tracked separately from data-centre demand and backup generation.
Published daily water volume13.8 million L/dayFrom 5 of 43 active projects. Includes related power-plant water where published. Not province-wide use.

Why focus on 43 projects? This graphic measures what Alberta may add next: proposed, approved, and under-construction projects. The 20 operating facilities and 4 inactive proposals remain in the full directory, but are excluded here so existing use is not mixed with proposed new demand.

Transmission lines across a rural landscape at sunset.

Why should I care?

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.

Power

What the new demand could mean

Published data centre demand equals 126% 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.

Why scale matters

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.

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.

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 43 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.

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.

Read how ADCW verifies Alberta data centre projects →