These power plants burn natural gas, a source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, to spin turbines that generate electricity. If the proposed data centers don’t already have their turbines ordered, it’s going to be a long wait. A global surge in demand for natural gas plant infrastructure is driving up costs and extending wait-lists, calling into question how realistic Alberta’s data center ambitions are. Emails to two data center developers, Beacon Data Centers and Synapse, also did not get a response. Another data center moving through the regulatory process is Beacon Data Centers’ Indus project, southwest of Calgary.