On July 8, Meta broke ground on the largest data-centre project in Canadian history, north of Edmonton. When a single industrial site approaches the electricity demand of a major city, technology and energy policy become impossible to separate. Behind it sits a queue approaching 20,000 megawatts—more electricity than Alberta has ever consumed in a single hour. Less than a golf courseThat is how Meta describes the water needed to cool its Sturgeon campus. 132 covered 25,600 acres along the Sturgeon River after the Michel Band entered Treaty 6 by adhesion in 1878.