Map / NB
Verified 2026-08-16
Saint John AI Data Centre (Spruce Lake Industrial Park / Lorneville)
Beacon Data Centers / VoltaGrid / Lorneville, Saint John, New Brunswick
Announced
390 MW
announced
0 MW
energized
None of it is drawing power yet.
- 2025-10-30 Announced
- 2028 Developer target stated by the developer, not a filed date
- Power path
- Hybrid
- Generation tech
- grid draw plus on-site natural gas turbines (VoltaGrid)
- Utility
- NB Power
- Queue reference
- Not stated
- Target online
- 2028
- Announced
- 2025-10-30
- Verification
- multiple
- Coordinate
- 45.18306, -66.15556 (town)
Getting power in New Brunswick
Open but non-committal: the utility says it can handle a specific 190 MW request but wants flexible, interruptible load, not firm baseload commitments.
The full New Brunswick record, with the route to power, the binding constraint and every dated policy event.
Sources
- Calgary, Texas companies propose data centre for Saint John industrial park
- Proposed data centre would need almost half of Tantramar gas plant's power
- In New Brunswick, residents battle the government over a planned AI data centre
- Beacon AI Center and VoltaGrid may build data center in Saint John, Canada
- Holt government refuses data centre moratorium as activists rally against Lorneville project
- CHCO-TV — A growing footprint: AI data centre planned for rural N.B. (390 MW total, 190 MW on-site VoltaGrid gas plant, 200 MW from NB Power, 3.4 TWh/yr, ~755,187 t CO2e/yr, construction planned to begin 2026, operation 2028)
A 120-hectare Crown-land parcel in Spruce Lake Industrial Park. Total draw of 390 MW, split roughly 200 MW from the grid and 190 MW from an on-site VoltaGrid gas plant. Registered for environmental impact assessment and under review between April and June 2026; final approval is still pending and construction has not started. Reporting in July 2026 on the assessment material puts annual consumption at about 3.4 TWh and projected direct emissions at roughly 755,187 tonnes of CO2e a year, about 6.6 per cent of New Brunswick's 2023 total, which would place the project among the province's largest emitters. The companies state construction is planned to begin in 2026 with operation in 2028; those are company statements. Related: the Beacon AI Centers projects in Alberta, same proponent family.
Last verified 2026-08-16. Corrections: sam@mccordinvestments.com