Spruce Lake AI Data Centre

Name: Spruce Lake AI Data Centre
Address: CA

Announced

Canada · 1 project · Last reported 2026-09-15

Summary

Beacon New Brunswick and VoltaGrid propose a 390 MW AI data centre with four data halls in the Spruce Lake Industrial Park, Lorneville, Saint John. It would be paired with a 190 MW on-site natural-gas plant and supplied with additional grid power. On September 15, 2026, the federal Impact Assessment Agency reported that it had received a request to designate the project for federal assessment and was analysing it. The provincial environmental review, registered in April, was still in progress at the end of September. Construction in 2026 and operation in mid-2028 are forecasts. evidence

Impact Assessment Agency of Canada · published 2026-09-15

Location

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Projects (1)

Spruce Lake AI Data Centre — proposed campus and on-site generation

Announced last observed as of 2026-09-15 · Project announcement

A public request asks the federal minister to designate the project. It summarises the proposal as a 390 MW hyperscale data centre with 190 MW of behind-the-meter gas generation, two 345 kV lines drawing about 200 MW from the NB Power grid, and two 4.5 km gas laterals. The site is about 120 ha, and investment of up to $2 billion has been reported. The request says construction is expected to begin in 2026, with operation targeted for 2028, and that the provincial EIA (project 1663) is in determination review. evidence

Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (registry copy of a public request) · published 2026-08-16

The provincial registry lists project 1663, registered on April 14, 2026 by Beacon New Brunswick Inc. and VoltaGrid LLC. It describes a 390 MW data centre and a 190 MW behind-the-meter gas generation facility in the Spruce Lake Industrial Park, Saint John (Kings / Saint John counties). Its status is "Determination review in progress". The listed documents are the registration, an updated site plan and pipeline-routing addendum, and the Round 1 TRC and proponent response report. evidence

New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government · publication date not stated

The April 28 addendum gives measured site plans for the Data Centre PDA (the lot) at the TRC's request, and an alternative gas-pipeline route west of the data-centre facility. Lot coverage is estimated at 20.8% for power generation, data halls, data hut and substation (37.5% with ancillary areas), within the 65% maximum for the Spruce Lake Industrial zone. The data-centre site itself is not relocated. evidence

Beacon New Brunswick Inc. and VoltaGrid LLC (prepared by Stantec) · published 2026-04-28

Companies

Operator: Beacon New Brunswick Inc. (Beacon AI Centers) (intended) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Canadian Impact Assessment Registry: Spruce Lake AI Data Centre Project (reference 90762) evidence row
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada · published 2026-09-15 · Government record

Locator

Project locator · Compiled location reference · mean_of_proponent_declared_onsite_stack_coordinates_in_eia_registration evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 42 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 45.18371, -66.17632
Geometry licence: all-rights-reserved
Use scope: Project locator
Scope class: mean_of_proponent_declared_onsite_stack_coordinates_in_eia_registration
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Campus
Method: arithmetic_mean_of_58_generator_and_boiler_stack_utm_nad83_zone19_coordinates_table_3_3_transformed_epsg26919_to_epsg4326_with_pyproj_3_7_1
Derivation: coordinate_transform
Precision scope: Mean of the 58 modelled on-site stack positions (50 gas-engine and 8 boiler stacks) inside the roughly 89 ha Data Centre Project Development Area. It locates the proposed campus, not a building footprint or surveyed boundary. The stacks lie up to 459 m from this point. The point is 198 m from IAAC's stated-approximate registry marker.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The machine-readable Data Centre PDA outline was not published; the modelled stack coordinates span up to about 459 m around the mean, and no surveyed accuracy is given.
Geometry evidence: 77516a5d

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

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Evidence for Spruce Lake AI Data Centre
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Canadian Impact Assessment Registry: Spruce Lake AI Data Centre Project (reference 90762) Archived copy	Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Government record	Project announcement	2026-09-15	2026-10-16	Crown copyright; Canada.ca terms and conditions	Impact Assessment Agency of Canada	`5e818d883f3404453c6fe06de508c0d1f6c9b2ce85ec7810d1ec71f01bc1b32f` Retained source material; see source provenance
New Brunswick EIA registrations and determinations (1657–most recent), Internet Archive copy of 30 September 2026 Archived copy	New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government; Internet Archive	`27ff0c6ba98206331f4e194dfe89da3293ef53c68c9545321d88d23d0167332b` Retained source material; see source provenance
Request for designation of the Spruce Lake AI Data Centre Project (IAAC registry document 1) Archived copy	Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (registry copy of a public request) Regulatory filing	Site and project identity	2026-08-16	2026-10-16	Crown copyright registry copy of third-party content; Canada.ca terms and conditions	Impact Assessment Agency of Canada; requester	`ac50e9782a8100093618bb83a49e7e2cb74f87f15e1f228c1bebcace00e43210` Retained source material; see source provenance
Spruce Lake AI Data Centre Project — EIA Registration (NB project 1663), Internet Archive copy of 18 September 2026 Archived copy	Beacon New Brunswick Inc. and VoltaGrid LLC (prepared by Stantec), filed with NB Department of Environment and Local Government Regulatory filing	Geometry, Operator claim	2026-04-14	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Beacon New Brunswick Inc.; VoltaGrid LLC; Stantec; NB Department of Environment and Local Government; Internet Archive	`0eae875d14f01ffc17370e9a67accb9144a53606a18c5b9954d84a6bd6080543` Retained source material; see source provenance
Spruce Lake AI Data Centre — Updated Site Plans and Alternate Pipeline Route (EIA 1663 addendum, 28 April 2026), Internet Archive copy Archived copy	Beacon New Brunswick Inc. and VoltaGrid LLC (prepared by Stantec) Regulatory filing	Site and project identity	2026-04-28	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Beacon New Brunswick Inc.; VoltaGrid LLC; Stantec; Internet Archive	`7451a12ff25299f91f5f32a1cf75b7b06e4cd8a47a1158a0a02a8f719ecaf35d` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Spruce Lake AI Data Centre [site vcc-site-bea6bf727e581e987a62]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-bea6bf727e581e987a62/

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