Meta will bring a data center to Canada.

The company announced Wednesday that it has broken ground on a new artificial intelligence computing center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, outside of Edmonton. The facility represents an investment of more than 13 billion Canadian dollars, or approximately $9 billion, and is planned as a 1-gigawatt data center, the company said in a news release.

It will be Meta’s first data center in the country.

“This data center will be optimized for our AI workloads, helping to bring to life the technologies that billions of people around the world use to connect, find communities, grow businesses and experience the power of our wearable devices,” Meta said.

The facility will be Meta’s 33rd data center worldwide. Meta said he expects the project to support more than 3,000 construction workers at its peak and more than 300 “operational jobs” once it is completed. The company said it will also spend about 60 million Canadian dollars, or about $42 million, on local infrastructure improvements.

Meta did not disclose the square footage or square footage of the Sturgeon County campus. The company said the facility will use a “liquid-cooled closed-loop system with dry cooling,” meaning it is designed to avoid the need for a continuous supply of water for cooling.

A Meta spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement, Alanna Hnatiw, mayor of Sturgeon County, welcomed the new facility as a positive development for the region, which will generate jobs and “long-term tax revenue.”

“We are excited to work with our new neighbors as we continue to make that vision a reality,” the mayor said.

In the United States, Meta said it has 28 data centers, including the massive Richland Parish site in Louisiana.

The Louisiana data center campus is expected to be Meta’s largest facility to date, covering 4 million square feet and providing more than 2 gigawatts of computing capacity.