AI Daily Briefing

Meta’s C$13B Alberta Bet Pulls AI Compute North

Thursday, July 9, 2026 · 4 min

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Meta will build a C$13 billion Alberta data centre, while DeepInfra opens a Toronto inference cluster with 1,000-plus Blackwell GPUs. Canada is turning into a serious AI compute battleground, from gigawatt campuses to latency-sensitive serving.

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Meta will build a C$13 billion Alberta data centre, while DeepInfra opens a Toronto inference cluster with 1,000-plus Blackwell GPUs. Canada is turning into a serious AI compute battleground, from gigawatt campuses to latency-sensitive serving.

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