Meta says its planned Alberta data-center campus will use closed-loop liquid cooling, but the available project account gives no annual or peak water volume; data Center Dynamics puts the investment at CA$13 billion, starting at one gigawatt and scalable to 1.8 gigawatts. [1]

The distinction carries forward the paper's finding that Cheyenne involved construction wastewater in a reclaimed irrigation system, not contaminated drinking water, operating cooling or human infection; Friday's Alberta record concerns a design claim before measured operation, not a repeat of that incident.

The project account also links the campus to a 970-megawatt gas plant and CA$60 million in local infrastructure; those figures make the physical proposal more legible while leaving the water ledger blank; Closed-loop describes recirculation; without withdrawal and consumption figures, it does not quantify demand.

AI X can frame the project as clean scale or ratepayer capture, although no verified post supplied a water measurement or utility ruling; the source records company funding claims, not filings proving cost allocation; the paper's standing test remains intact: capacity, generation, water and household cost become evidence when measured or made enforceable, not when a design adjective announces them.

-- DARA OSEI, London