The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that Pembina Pipeline said on Thursday it will go ahead with its planned $4.6-billion Greenlight Electricity Centre in Alberta, a project that will power the development of a major data centre for an as-yet-unnamed customer. A Reuters dispatch to The Globe says the Calgary pipeline company announced a positive final investment decision on the Greenlight project, a 932-megawatt natural-gas-fired power-generation facility to be located in Sturgeon county in central Alberta. Pembina -- which is partnering with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Kineticor Asset Management -- did not name the customer who will build the data centre, but the data centre will be a first of its kind in Canada. Canada currently has only five functioning data centres at the so-called hyperscale level, which means they demand at least 50 megawatts of electricity capacity, equivalent to the power needs of a small city. Nearly 100 other hyperscale data centres are in the works in Canada, and nearly 90 per cent of those are planned for Alberta. The province has been touting its massive reserves of cheap natural gas in an effort to entice tech companies to build data centres there.