Map / AB
Verified 2026-08-16
Beacon AI Centers — Heartland Project Thermal Power Plant
Heartland Power Generation LP (Beacon AI Centers) / Alberta Industrial Heartland — Section 15, Township 56, Range 22, W4M; ~7 km east of Gibbons, Sturgeon County, AB
Announced
800 MW
announced
0 MW
energized
None of it is drawing power yet.
Not shown on the map. No location has been disclosed for this project beyond Alberta Industrial Heartland — Section 15, Township 56, Range 22, W4M; ~7 km east of Gibbons, Sturgeon County, AB. Its megawatts are counted in every total on this site; only the dot is withheld, because placing one would assert a site nobody has stated.
- Power path
- Behind the fence
- Generation tech
- 920 MW total capability natural gas thermal plant; ~800 MW supplied under normal operation to co-located on-site data halls
- Utility
- Not stated
- Queue reference
- AUC Proceeding 30518, Application 30518-A001 (power plant application)
- Target online
- Not stated
- Announced
- 2026-08-16
- Verification
- public_filing
- Coordinate
- Not disclosed
Getting power in Alberta
Courting load loudly while the near-term connection queue is already spoken for.
The full Alberta record, with the route to power, the binding constraint and every dated policy event.
Sources
- AUC — Beacon AI Centers, Heartland Project Thermal Power Plant application (Proceeding 30518, Application 30518-A001; 920 MW total capability; ~800 MW to co-located on-site data halls; written hearing; filed under the Hydro and Electric Energy Act)
- AUC — Featured applications (Heartland application status: Under review)
Before the AUC as Proceeding 30518, a written hearing: 920 MW of total capability, of which about 800 MW would supply co-located on-site data halls under normal operation. Filed under the Hydro and Electric Energy Act. The announced column carries the 800 MW of data centre load, not the total capability; the two are never summed. The posted schedule ran to the applicant's final written reply on 2026-08-04. No disposition has been posted, and the AUC listed the application as under review on 2026-08-16. Nothing here should be read as approval, rejection, or a timing commitment. AESO's connection list separately carries two grid load entries under the Beacon Heartland name, P2934 and P3175 at 400 MW each; those are grid filings held in this dataset's queue layer and are not this behind-the-fence generation application. Their megawatts are not combined with this record's. Same county as the Meta/GLDC record, from which nothing further is inferred. No coordinate is published.
Other tracked projects in Alberta
- Genesee Data Centre Project Capital Power · 1.5 GW · In queue
- Wonder Valley AI Data Centre Park (Phase 1) O'Leary Ventures · 1.4 GW · Announced
- Beacon AI Hub — Indus (with Indus Project Thermal Power Plant) Beacon AI Centers / Indus Power Generation LP · 1.2 GW · Announced
- Synapse Olds Data Centre Synapse Data Center Inc. · 1.0 GW · Announced
- Meta Data Center (Sturgeon County) Meta Platforms Inc. · 970 MW · In queue
- Black Bear Power Project (data centre power supply) Teton Digital LLC (formerly Kiwetinohk Energy Corp.) · 466 MW · Announced
- Beacon AI Data Centre Hub - Chestermere Beacon Data Centres (Beacon AI) · 400 MW · In queue
- Project North Light Not disclosed. The project website names no developer, operator or parent company. · 360 MW · Announced
Last verified 2026-08-16. Corrections: sam@mccordinvestments.com