Built in Alberta. Built by your neighbours. Built right.

No. We are not connected to municipal water — and we never touch municipal drinking water for cooling. Ever. The campus cooling system is a sealed glycol loop: the coolant is piped directly to the chips, recirculated, and cooled again — nothing evaporated, no steam plumes, no draw on the water residents and farms depend on. And on the rare occasions any water is used on site, it is captured, harvested, cleansed and used again — a circular system, not a drain on anyone’s well or treatment plant. The only municipal-style demand is ordinary domestic use for the small staff building.

No. This is industrial land, inside a converted industrial subdivision, doing what industrial land is for. Blindman Industrial Park is an established industrial subdivision designated by Red Deer County, sitting in a corridor of heavy, medium and business-industrial uses — with the City of Red Deer’s own Chiles Industrial Park (heavy industrial) to the south and Burbank Industrial Park to the northeast. This is not agricultural land being converted; it is an industrial area doing more of what it was always zoned to do. For years it sat as some of the most underused, lowest-priced industrial land in the region. Our goal from day one has been its revitalization: anchoring the park with world-class investment so every business and landowner in it benefits. Building industry in an industrial park is the plan working — not the plan changing.

The campus brings its own power. Generation is behind the fence — modern Rolls-Royce mtu engines running on firm Alberta natural gas, built on our own land, at our own cost. The campus does not take capacity off the local grid to run its computers, and no servicing costs are passed to residents or ratepayers.

Any future connection to the provincial grid would be to add power to Alberta’s system, and would go through the AESO and Alberta Utilities Commission’s full public processes first.

The design target is simple: if you’re trying hard, you might hear a quiet dishwasher. Alberta regulates industrial noise through AUC Rule 012, which limits nighttime sound at the nearest residence to roughly 40–45 dBA — about the level of a quiet dishwasher — and our engineering is built to meet it — verified by two independent RWDI acoustical studies (below), with more measurement to come as we build.

• Everything lives inside concrete buildings. Instead of scattering equipment in metal enclosures outdoors — the cheap way — generation and computing are enclosed in insulated concrete structures, layered like a Russian doll.
• Acoustical silencers on every opening. Air intakes carry acoustical silencers; exhausts carry hospital-grade silencers; rooftop equipment sits behind acoustical screens.
• Pumps, not hurricanes. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling means small pumps and radiators — not the walls of roaring fans that made older data centres infamous.
• Measure, then improve. As 10 MW comes online we will measure actual noise — not just model it — and adapt the mitigation before the next phase. If more is ever needed, options like sound walls are already identified.

That number described the staffing of one admin building — not the project. The real picture, today: 20+ people work directly for AHI and we are still hiring; with our multiple consultants, over 120 Albertans are working on this project right now across engineering, construction, environmental, legal and trades firms; and during construction there are 20 to 100 people on site at any given time, rotating across companies as each scope peaks. The 24/7 operations team then grows hall by hall. And this is Alberta money — invested and risked by people born and raised here, not a branch-plant budget. Full numbers, including jobs supported across the wider economy, in Jobs & economy below.

Yes — publicly, on the record, with more consultation than required. Red Deer County’s Municipal Planning Commission approved the development permit in October 2025 after a public process. The area was consulted — including residents beyond the required referral distance. Every refinement since has been filed with the County under the conditions of that permit, and every future phase must earn its own permits, its own studies — including updated traffic impact assessments — and its own reviews. We follow the process. That protects you, and it protects the project.

The honest answer: the infrastructure can support serious scale — the discipline is that it only ever happens 10 MW at a time. This corridor and our holdings are engineered with a pathway to 300 MW and ultimately a gigawatt of capacity. How far we actually go depends on capital and opportunity — the more that’s invested here, the more Alberta gets. But our plan of record right now is 30 MW: the first 10 MW is under construction targeting first power in 2027, and our next application, toward 30 MW, goes through the County like everything else.

Whatever the ceiling turns out to be, the method never changes: modular 10 MW steps, each with its own permits, studies and public process, each built inside controlled industrial areas. We are deliberately not the “announce a gigawatt, figure it out later” developer. Phased, financed, permitted, built — in that order, every time. What growth at scale would mean for the County and Alberta is laid out in What could this do for Alberta?

Albertans. AHI was founded by a Calgary-born-and-raised Albertan and is developed by Havenz Smart Communities — an Alberta-owned team, with Indigenous partnership, that has spent a decade getting this right. Decisions are made here by people who live here, our own local capital is on the table, and our partners — from our Red Deer general contractor to our Central Alberta subtrades — are your neighbours. This is not an American giant landing in a field; it’s local people investing local dollars in their own backyard.

The best available evidence says no — and industrial neighbours typically benefit. A 2025 George Mason University analysis of thousands of home sales around North America’s largest data-centre cluster found no statistical evidence that proximity to a data centre lowers home values — homes closer to data centres actually sold slightly higher. For the businesses and landowners inside Blindman Industrial Park, an anchor investment of this scale brings servicing momentum, traffic-count credibility and demand to a park that has long been underpriced. Full numbers in Property values below.

Clean by design, cleaner over time. The campus runs modern lean-burn engines on Alberta natural gas — among the cleanest-burning combustion platforms available — operating within Alberta’s environmental approvals framework. The units are 100% hydrogen-compatible: as hydrogen supply matures in Alberta, the campus is already built to blend it in and keep lowering its emissions intensity.

We build inside an industrial park that exists for exactly this. Construction traffic uses industrial-park access, a traffic impact assessment has been completed for the current phase, and updated assessments are required before any future phase proceeds. We also chose to consolidate equipment inside buildings rather than sprawl it across the yard — less outdoor clutter, less noise, and a cleaner site than a typical industrial build.

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