Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/meta-is-building-its-first-big-data-center-in-canada-amid-ai-push.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260708/i40.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260708/p40#a260708p40" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jonathan Vanian / <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/">CNBC</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/meta-is-building-its-first-big-data-center-in-canada-amid-ai-push.html">Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Meta's AI expansion is heading north of the border.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The company said in a blog post on Wednesday that it's building its first data center &hellip; </p>