Meta's Canada AI hub to use 800K homes' power

Meta is investing C$13 billion to build its first Canadian AI data center in Alberta, consuming electricity equal to 800,000 homes. Separately, a Meta-affiliated company, Goat Systems LLC, flooded Wyoming wastewater with the rare bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, leading Cheyenne to revoke waste-dumping privileges for all data center campuses and ban fill-and-flush discharge.