Alberta
Central Alberta is winning the battle. Just one active case of COVID-19 in Red Deer. Central Alberta COVID Update April 21

Information from covid19stats.alberta.ca
Central Albertans are winning the battle against COVID-19. Total cases in this area remains at 77. People continue to recover bringing the number of active cases lower on a daily basis.
There is only 1 active case in the City of Red Deer today. Of the 77 cases in Central Alberta only 7 are active! The only fatality so far in Central Alberta was a woman in her 80’s from Camrose.
Here’s the Central Alberta breakdown.
- Red Deer City – 32 cases – 1 Active – 31 Recovered
- Red Deer County – 12 cases – 1 Active – 11 Recovered
- Wetaskiwin City – 7 cases – All Recovered
- Mountain View County – 5 cases – All Recovered
- Settler County – 4 cases – 3 Active – 1 Recovered
- Lacombe County – 3 cases – All Recovered
- Ponoka County 2 cases – 1 Active – 1 Recovered
- Lacombe City – 2 cases – 2 Recovered
- Camrose City – 2 cases – 1 Recovered – 1 Death (Woman in her 80’s)
- Beaver County – 2 cases – 2 Recovered
- Camrose County – 1 case – Recovered
- Windburn County – 1 case – Recovered
- Vermilion River County – 1 case – Recovered
- Kneehill County – 1 case – Recovered
- Clearwater County – 1 Case – Recovered
- MD of Wainwright – 1 Case – Active
The following graph shows the number and ages of Albertans who have been hospitalized, who have spend time in Intensive Care, and also the number and age of those who have died. Just 3 people under 60 years old have died to this point in time.
Here are the total numbers for the province.
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Temporary Alberta grid limit unlikely to dampen data centre investment, analyst says

From the Canadian Energy Centre
By Cody Ciona
‘Alberta has never seen this level and volume of load connection requests’
Billions of investment in new data centres is still expected in Alberta despite the province’s electric system operator placing a temporary limit on new large-load grid connections, said Carson Kearl, lead data centre analyst for Enverus Intelligence Research.
Kearl cited NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s estimate from earlier this year that building a one-gigawatt data centre costs between US$60 billion and US$80 billion.
That implies the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO)’s 1.2 gigawatt temporary limit would still allow for up to C$130 billion of investment.
“It’s got the potential to be extremely impactful to the Alberta power sector and economy,” Kearl said.
Importantly, data centre operators can potentially get around the temporary limit by ‘bringing their own power’ rather than drawing electricity from the existing grid.
In Alberta’s deregulated electricity market – the only one in Canada – large energy consumers like data centres can build the power supply they need by entering project agreements directly with electricity producers.
According to the AESO, there are 30 proposed data centre projects across the province.
The total requested power load for these projects is more than 16 gigawatts, roughly four gigawatts more than Alberta’s demand record in January 2024 during a severe cold snap.
For comparison, Edmonton’s load is around 1.4 gigawatts, the AESO said.
“Alberta has never seen this level and volume of load connection requests,” CEO Aaron Engen said in a statement.
“Because connecting all large loads seeking access would impair grid reliability, we established a limit that preserves system integrity while enabling timely data centre development in Alberta.”
As data centre projects come to the province, so do jobs and other economic benefits.
“You have all of the construction staff associated; electricians, engineers, plumbers, and HVAC people for all the cooling tech that are continuously working on a multi-year time horizon. In the construction phase there’s a lot of spend, and that is just generally good for the ecosystem,” said Kearl.
Investment in local power infrastructure also has long-term job implications for maintenance and upgrades, he said.
“Alberta is a really exciting place when it comes to building data centers,” said Beacon AI CEO Josh Schertzer on a recent ARC Energy Ideas podcast.
“It has really great access to natural gas, it does have some excess grid capacity that can be used in the short term, it’s got a great workforce, and it’s very business-friendly.”
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Alberta Next: Taxation

A new video from the Alberta Next panel looks at whether Alberta should stop relying on Ottawa to collect our provincial income taxes. Quebec already does it, and Alberta already collects corporate taxes directly. Doing the same for personal income taxes could mean better tax policy, thousands of new jobs, and less federal interference. But it would take time, cost money, and require building new systems from the ground up.
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