Map / AB
Verified 2026-08-16
Beacon AI Hub — Indus (with Indus Project Thermal Power Plant)
Beacon AI Centers / Indus Power Generation LP / Rocky View County, AB — Section 11, Township 23, Range 28, W4M; ~3 km east of Calgary, ~2 km northwest of the Hamlet of Indus
Announced
1.2 GW
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 Rocky View County, AB — Section 11, Township 23, Range 28, W4M; ~3 km east of Calgary, ~2 km northwest of the Hamlet of Indus. 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
- 1,494 MW natural gas thermal plant (fast-response reciprocating engines plus combined-cycle gas turbines), supplying ~1,200 MW to co-located on-site data halls
- Utility
- Not stated
- Queue reference
- AUC Proceeding 30524, Application 30524-A001 (power plant application)
- Target online
- Not stated
- Announced
- 2025-06-17
- 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, Indus Project Thermal Power Plant (Proceeding 30524, Application 30524-A001; 1,494 MW total capability; ~1,200 MW to co-located on-site data halls; virtual oral hearing August 18, 2026 at 9 a.m.)
- AUC — Featured applications (Indus application status: Under review)
- Rocky View County — Beacon AI Hub Area Structure Plan (Council approved June 17, 2025; ~900 acres; redesignated “Special, Data Centre land use district”)
- Impact Assessment Agency of Canada — Beacon AI Centers Indus Project (early decision, March 10 2026: no further assessment required)
Before the AUC as Proceeding 30524: a 1,494 MW natural gas thermal plant, fast-response reciprocating engines plus combined-cycle turbines, of which about 1,200 MW would supply co-located on-site data halls. The announced column carries the 1,200 MW of data centre load, not the generating capability. The two are stated separately and never summed. Rocky View County Council approved the Beacon AI Hub Area Structure Plan, about 900 acres, and redesignated the land “Special, Data Centre” on 2025-06-17. The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada decided on 2026-03-10 that no further federal assessment was required. A virtual oral hearing was set to commence 2026-08-18 at 9 a.m.; the AUC listed the application as under review on 2026-08-16. The data centre itself is not under construction. Public records disagree on the applicant and are left as printed: the AUC's Indus page names Heartland Power Generation LP as contact entity, the project is described publicly as Indus Power Generation LP, and the federal registry names Indus Power. No coordinate is published; the AUC gives a legal land description only.
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
- Synapse Olds Data Centre Synapse Data Center Inc. · 1.0 GW · Announced
- Meta Data Center (Sturgeon County) Meta Platforms Inc. · 970 MW · In queue
- Beacon AI Centers — Heartland Project Thermal Power Plant Heartland Power Generation LP (Beacon AI Centers) · 800 MW · Announced
- 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