Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corp. is joining forces with a local power company and a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley to build a massive new electricity generating station northeast of Edmonton that would serve a data centre customer. Pembina said Thursday the partners, which include Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Calgary’s Kineticor Asset Management, had given a final investment decision to the Greenlight Electricity Centre, a $4.6-billion project that would generate 932 megawatts. The partners didn’t name the data centre customer that would use this large amount of power, but previous reports and analyst research had suggested that Meta Platforms Inc. was tied to the project. A January report by TD Securities analyst Michael Elias said Meta plans to build a gigawatt-plus data centre in Edmonton. Pembina said in a release that Alberta has positioned itself as an attractive destination for significant investment in data centre projects, which require long-term, reliable power. The province has long been dealing with a glut of natural gas , which has kept local prices stubbornly low. Part of the Alberta government’s strategy to attract power-hungry data centres is to provide a new market for the gas. The Greenlight project will require approximately 150 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, with the partners securing long-term commitments from producers to ship on Pembina’s and TC Energy Corp.’s pipeline systems, among other commercial arrangements. On the eve of Alberta's pipeline application, Carney concedes emissions will be higherConstruction on Alberta data centres could start this year “Reliable, dispatchable power is the foundation of the AI and cloud economy and Greenlight will deliver it at scale to one of Canada’s most important new data centre developments,” Chris Ortega, head of the Americas for Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, said in a release. Pembina will own 47.5 per cent of the project, while the Morgan Stanley group controls 47.5 per cent, with Kineticor owning the remaining five per cent. More to come … • Email: RSouthwick@postmedia.com