Sturgeon County sits north of Edmonton in Alberta and is named for the Sturgeon River. It governs a mixed rural-urban region in Division No. 11.
Meta has expanded its Hyperion AI data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana to at least 5 gigawatts of compute capacity at a cost surpassing $50 billion. The project, already a major AI infrastructure push, is expected to create over 1,000 jobs and bring billions in local contracts and infrastructure investments.