Meta To Shell Out Billions For New AI Data Center Outside US
California-based technology giant Meta announced Wednesday that it is constructing its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada.
California-based Technology giant Meta announced Wednesday that it is constructing its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada.
Meta said in a press release that its new 1-gigawatt “AI-optimized” data center will be located in Alberta, Canada, and aims to help power the company’s “AI innovations and core products.” The data center project represents a total investment of more than 13 billion Canadian dollars.
Meta projects that the data center project will help support more than 3,000 construction workers at peak and over 300 operational jobs. The company also said it is planning to invest approximately 60 million Canadian dollars for “local infrastructure improvements that will benefit the local community” and disburse grants and funding to local nonprofits as part of the project.
Meta did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Meta said that any electricity usage from its latest data center project “will be matched with 100% clean and renewable energy,” according to the press release. The tech company also noted that it plans to utilize “a water efficient closed-loop, liquid-cooled system with dry cooling, which means there will be no operational water use in the cooling system” for the project.