3.6 GW data centre proposed on Pembina-linked land near Meta's campus, The Logic reports

The Logic reported on 11 Nov 2026, in a story by Meghan Potkins, that a newly formed Alberta company connected with Pembina Pipeline and its Greenlight partners bought about 134 acres of Sturgeon County land in October, beside the Greenlight Electricity Centre, the gas plant Pembina has under construction for Meta's data centre campus. The outlet says it traced the purchase through provincial land records.

According to The Logic, filings with Alberta's grid operator describe Lynx, a data centre of up to 3.6 gigawatts to be built in phases on that land, compared with about one gigawatt for Meta's campus. The same filings, it says, list two proposed gas-fired plants, both named Sturgeon Gas, with enough generating capacity to supply Lynx, and a target in-service date of June 2031. The outlet says the projects are at the very start of the province's grid-connection process and that no hyperscale customer has been publicly named.

The Logic says the land-owning company's directors include at least four executives of firms in the Greenlight partnership, Pembina among them. Pembina declined to give details of its plans for the property, the outlet says.

Pembina announced on 2 July 2026 that it and its two partners in Greenlight had reached a final investment decision to build the 932-megawatt combined-cycle gas plant in Sturgeon County, which will supply a data centre directly. It said the site could grow to a permitted 1,864 megawatts and that the partners were pursuing further power projects for data centres, a second phase among them. On 8 July Pembina congratulated Meta and the Alberta government on announcing the data centre that Greenlight will power.

In its third-quarter results on 5 Nov 2026, Pembina called power sold under contract to data centres a significant growth opportunity that can scale, and said Greenlight gives it a model for future expansions. The Logic reports that on the earnings call Pembina's chief executive said the existing site is licensed for 1.8 gigawatts, twice what is being built, with industrial land beside it, and that the company said it is negotiating the commercial agreements, including turbines and grid connections, for Greenlight's next phase. That phase could double the size of Meta's Alberta campus, the outlet says, but neither Pembina nor Meta has made a final investment decision on it.

The Logic says Lynx and Sturgeon Gas are separate from any Greenlight expansion, and that Lynx could become the third large AI data centre planned for Sturgeon County, following Meta's campus and another developer's 800-megawatt project.