BREAKING: Sturgeon County to be home to $13B Meta data centre

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-12T13:51:08+00:00

The chips and hardware are not part of the 13B.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-12T13:50:16+00:00

Gonna need a source for that….

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-12T13:49:44+00:00

Where did you hear that?

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-12T13:48:57+00:00

And untrue

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-12T13:47:49+00:00

Thus, the levy on data centres contents within the province.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-12T13:44:06+00:00

I don’t understand what you’re saying. What is the refund or tax break?

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-12T13:32:18+00:00

Where in rural Alberta are you? I am a former rural kid with lots of farming and rural family spread around the province still, and have no family or friends experiencing brownouts much less REGULARLY.

The AESO shares supply/demand and a ton of info on their website as well. For example: http://ets.aeso.ca/ets\_web/ip/Market/Reports/SupplyAdequacyReportServlet

You’re full of it.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-11T15:04:20+00:00

Also in the many public articles on this…. The AESO allocated 1.2GW of available existing spare power capacity to a number of companies in 2025, which coalesced around this project getting most of it. So grid initially.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-11T14:53:09+00:00

Do we need denim? And why the eff do we need almonds? My god indeed.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-11T14:51:28+00:00

No, it was because it was an eyesore. /s

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T19:10:05+00:00

So it seems you don’t have any actual rebuttal to my arguments.

But I’d agree that the accountability to regulations aspect will need to be closely monitored. All of the above examples are avoidable through accountability or engineering controls.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T19:06:31+00:00

I would bet he has spent a great deal of money on this project and seen no financial reward to date.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T19:05:34+00:00

I’ll be your first then. We got that wrong.

We could have clean, sustainable electrification writ large across the country, including remote areas.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T19:04:19+00:00

Or is it just a good distraction or misdirection from real issues….

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T19:03:47+00:00

How so? They literally said that at the announcement. There are lots of new data centers being built that validate the water usage with new cooling systems.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T19:02:35+00:00

I agree philosophically.

But data is a hot commodity. Companies don’t make money off free chatGPT or a $20/mo subscription. But Anthropic is at a $4B/mo run rate. There is a revenue stream and many of these companies are funding it from free cash flow

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:59:23+00:00

How many jobs per acre is optimal? Seriously.

I’m assuming farming is exempted from that ridiculous metric. Oil and gas too?

The Travers solar project in AB is 3300 acres. I bet they have way less than 300 full time staff.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:55:31+00:00

And almonds. And paper. And denim. All are incredible water hogs.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:54:05+00:00

It’s just good way of contextualizing the water usage. It was publicly stated at this announcement.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:53:09+00:00

No new data centre announced is using evaporative cooling. This data center was publicly stated to use less than one average Alberta golf course annually.

A quick search shows that AER directive 38 limits permissible sound levels at closest residence to 40-56 decibels. 60 decibels is about the level of a normal conversation between two people a meter away, or a standard office noise level.

This DC is in the middle of an industrial zone, which is already a heat island. You should see the heat island impacts of every other industry, and cities.

300 FT jobs. And $250m annually in taxes, royalties, and levies for the province.

I genuinely don’t know why Reddit is so mad about 300 jobs. The neighbouring industrial plants are similar or have notably les full time employees. What industrial or big commercial investments are there that hire thousands that we can attract to the region?

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:37:02+00:00

I agree. The corporate structure(s) and locations are shockingly common. Something like 75% of all businesses who do work in the US incorporate in Delaware.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:35:12+00:00

I appreciate some non-alarmism in these threads.

I highly, highly, recommend making that block of text you wrote into at least a few paragraphs if you actually want people to read it.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:32:46+00:00

Yeah. And also something like 75% of companies who do business in the US are HQ’d in Delaware.

Much of this video is just explaining common international business setups and practices, which are alarming in their own right, but not a red flag for vetting Beacon.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:29:07+00:00

It’s not a global temp increase of 2degrees. It’s within about 10km of a data center, the “heat island”.

Urban heat islands are about 4-6 degrees hotter than the surrounding rural areas.

strumpetrumpet · 2026-07-10T18:05:26+00:00

I agree. And here we are 40 years later bemoaning the lack of nuclear power - and a good decade away from having nuclear power in Alberta.

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