TransAlta: Sundance

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TransAlta: Sundance

Utility Provider: AltaLink

Ownership: TransAlta owns. the building.

Site History

April 2025: TransAlta mothballs Sundance Unit 6.
July 2025: TransAlta applies to rezone about 3,000 acres of its land around the Sundance and Keephills plants for data centres.
September 2025: Parkland County approves a data processing district covering Section 23-52-5-W5M at Sundance.

Project Profile

Developer: TransAlta
Location: Section 23-52-5-W5M, west of the Sundance plant, north of Highway 627
Land: owned by TransAlta
Status: Proposed; master site plan and development permit not yet filed

Map and Nearby Locations

Section 23-52-5-W5M ( West of the Sundance Generating Station )

TransAlta Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TransAlta: Sundance

Distance	Site	About
8.79 miles	TransAlta: Keephills Campus	Boreal Technology Hub is a planned AI data centre campus directly south of TransAlta's Keephills Generating Station in Parkland County, west of Edmonton. BGRE is developing it for Brookfield and CPP Investments, with TransAlta providing the site and power.
18.68 miles	KALiNA: Alsike Energy Park	KALiNA Distributed Power planned the Alsike Energy Park, a 160-acre gas-fired power and data centre site in Leduc County, southwest of Edmonton. KALiNA withdrew the data centre load in 2026 and kept the gas plant in development.

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