Alberta NewsAlberta man planning protests against data centres as province announces town hallsData centre protest plannedOrganizer Ben Baril speaks at a protest against a proposed Meta artificial intelligence data centre in Morinville Alta., on Sunday, August 2, 2026. The government has also said other AI data centres are in the works. Alberta's government calls the more than one-gigawatt and $13-billion facility the largest AI data centre investment in Canadian history. “We know Albertans have questions about AI data centres, and they deserve clear, factual answers," he said in an email Tuesday. A recent United Nations University report said the environmental footprint of data centres globally already rivals some of the world’s largest countries.