{"count":4,"developments":[{"id":"dev-730fba445608","date":"Jul 2026","event_date":"2026-07-01","ord":21,"market":"alberta","market_name":"Alberta","pillar":"Access","materiality":"med","headline":"Alberta enacts its Data Centre Regulation; AESO's bring-your-own-generation process nears rollout","summary":"The Data Centre Regulation AR 117/2026 (9 Jun 2026) codifies BYOG, prioritizing large data centers that bring their own generation. AESO's proposed BYOG process closed feedback 13 Jul 2026, with rollout expected Aug 2026 and intakes about every nine months.","stage":null,"delivers":null,"source":{"label":"Alberta Open Government","url":"https://open.alberta.ca/publications/2026_117"}},{"id":"dev-dc9a9176213c","date":"Jul 2026","event_date":"2026-07-01","ord":14,"market":"alberta","market_name":"Alberta","pillar":"Momentum","materiality":"high","headline":"Meta breaks ground on a CAD $13B, ~1 GW AI data center in Alberta, its first in Canada","summary":"Meta began construction (Jul 2026) of a roughly 1 GW, CAD $13 billion AI-optimized data center in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton, its first in Canada and 33rd worldwide, with the company reporting that it will match the site's electricity to clean and renewable supply. That is a procurement commitment, not a description of the physical grid mix. A build of this scale is concrete large-load momentum on the Alberta grid, and a live test of the interim connection framework.","stage":null,"delivers":null,"source":{"label":"CBC News","url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/meta-data-centre-sturgeon-county-alberta-9.7263271"}},{"id":"dev-8228f33fdeda","date":"Jun 2026","event_date":"2026-06-01","ord":12,"market":"alberta","market_name":"Alberta","pillar":"Access","materiality":"med","headline":"AESO interim large-load tranche fully allocated","summary":"Phase 1 closed on 12 Jun 2026 with all 1,200 MW of the interim data-centre connection limit allocated and contracted; a durable Phase 2 framework awaits Alberta's data-centre regulation.","stage":null,"delivers":null,"source":{"label":"AESO","url":"https://www.aeso.ca/aeso/newsroom/aeso-announces-interim-approach-to-large-load-connections/"}},{"id":"dev-46c3834ef226","date":"2025","event_date":"2025-01-01","ord":3,"market":"alberta","market_name":"Alberta","pillar":"Access","materiality":"med","headline":"AESO sets an interim large-load connection limit amid an AI surge","summary":"A temporary cap on new large-load connections while AESO designs a durable framework for a wave of data-center interest.","stage":null,"delivers":null,"source":{"label":"AESO","url":"https://www.aeso.ca/"}}]}