Alberta’s Energy Advantage: Powering the Future of Data Centers and Greenhouse Food Production

Alberta’s energy advantage is able to shape more than just power generation, it’s poised to reshape food production, digital infrastructure, and economic diversification at the same time.

Alberta has one of the strongest combinations anywhere in North America:
• Abundant, reliable energy
• A world-class industrial workforce
• Advanced power, transmission, and utility infrastructure
• Competitive operating costs

These same fundamentals make Alberta uniquely positioned for next-generation data center development.

Data centers thrive on stable, affordable power. And as they scale, they produce something just as valuable as compute: a massive, continuous stream of recoverable waste heat.

That thermal energy can directly power state-of-the-art greenhouses dramatically lowering one of the biggest barriers to year-round food production in cold climates: energy cost.

When Alberta’s energy sector, data infrastructure, and greenhouse production are designed as one integrated system, the impact could be powerful:

• Lower energy inputs per pound of food
• More resilient, domestic food supply
• Reduced exposure to global supply chain volatility
• Year-round production
• Improved project economics for both data and agriculture
• A meaningful step toward true food independence

Modern greenhouses are no longer just glass and steel, they are data-driven production systems. With real-time climate control, energy optimization, automation, and AI-guided crop management, today’s facilities use data the same way data centers do: to drive efficiency, predict performance, and optimize ROI.

At NuLeaf Farms, this convergence is exactly where we see the next phase of Alberta’s growth coming from:

Energy powering data.
Data powering food.
Food strengthening local economies.

This is also how Alberta diversifies without abandoning its strengths. We don’t turn away from energy we build on it:
• From electrons to computing to food
• From exports to local resilience
• From single-sector dependence to stacked, integrated infrastructure

If we design this correctly, Alberta doesn’t just become a place where data is processed it becomes a place where energy, intelligence, and food security are engineered together.

That’s not just competitiveness.
That’s long-term economic resilience.