AESO Establishes Interim Power Limit to Address Surge in Data Centre Connection Requests - Electrical Business

Don’t panic: AESO data centre limits are a red herring

The Alberta Electric System Operator's new 1,200-megawatt cap on large electricity loads understandably has some people warning that Alberta might “miss the AI economy.” That anxiety rests on an old assumption: that tomorrow’s AI infrastructure will sit in ever-bigger, grid-tied campuses.

AESO establishes interim power limit to address surge in data centre connection requests - Electrical Business

June 11, 2025 – The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) introduced a new interim approach that will enable the connection of up to 1200 megawatts of large load projects—such as data centres—between now and 2028 while maintaining the reliability of the province’s electricity system. The move comes in response to a surge in data centre requests, says the agency, with 29 proposed projects representing more than 16 gigawatts of total demand curr…

Eindhoven will use waste heat from data centre for heat grid

Municipality of Eindhoven will use residual heat from a data centre at Park Forum for the heat network of Meerhoven neighbourhood. To this end, the municipality wants to conclude an agreement with the owner of the data centre. With the use of the residual heat, the municipality wants to phase out the use of the bio-energy plant, which runs on biomass, in Meerhoven, the municipality announced. There is much debate about biomass as a sustainable e…