151 Front Street is Canada's largest carrier hotel, where the telecom, Internet service providers, and content companies colocate to exchange traffic (peer) between their respective networks.
Equinix's facilities in Toronto has a long history that includes several acquisitions. The original suites now operated by Equinix at 151 Front Street began with RACO, a Canadian company that Switch and Data acquired in 2004.
Cologix’s second Toronto data centre site at 905 King Street (TOR 2) was built using standards for concurrent maintainability for space, power, mechanical systems and security. The TOR 2 data centre can be utilized as a stand-alone, diverse bypass facility to Cologix's TOR 1 data centre at 151 Front Street.
The I.C.E facility in Markham can expand to 6MW and 60,000 sqft.
Toronto is Canada's largest data centre market, but the Province of Quebec has been growing fast with its access to inexpensive hydro power.
| Sites | Sites | Gross SqFt | Gross SqFt | Power (MW) | Power (MW) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q9 Networks | 6 | 471,500 | 34.00 | |||
| Cologix | 16 | 422,160 | 73.00 | |||
| Digital Realty Trust | 2 | 330,000 | 52.75 | |||
| Aptum Technologies | 7 | 207,000 | 25.50 | |||
| Cyxtera Technologies | 4 | 205,879 | 14.40 | |||
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| Gross SqFt | Gross SqFt | Power (MW) | Power (MW) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Century Place (TOR1) Digital Realty | 226,000 | 46.00 | ||
| Q9 Toronto Two (Brampton) | 185,000 | 13.28 | ||
| Q9 Calgary 3 | 177,500 | 10.40 | ||
| Compass Montreal II | 175,000 | 30.00 | ||
| Ascent Toronto TOR1 | 135,000 | 4.80 | ||
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Jun 04, 2020 | ServerFarm Toronto TOR1
ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFa...
May 07, 2020 | Aptum Front Street
Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield ha...
May 05, 2020 | Compass Toronto Etobicoke
Compass Datacenters acquired an existing building and land in Etobicoke, Ontario to build a campus. Etobicoke is just West of Toronto. Costing $100 million USD, the first phase, the initial data hall will support 10MW of critical IT load when construction is completed in Q3 of 2020. The data c...
Nov 06, 2019 | eStruxture Calgary CAL-1
eStruxture Data Centers has announced that it has won a new customer in its Calgary facility. The Calgary-based SaaS provider VEERUM is moving into eStruxture's facility in Calgary, Alberta. eStructure acquired the facility from Shaw in August. VEERUM specializes in asset visualization and man...
Oct 03, 2019 | Cologix MTL10-H
Cologix announced today that it has expanded its Longueuil Campus, located Northeast of Montreal in Quebec. The expansion was initiated by Colo-D in October 2018. Colo-D was acquired by Cologix two months later in December. Previously known as Colo-D2, the facility is now known as MTL10-H. T...
JLL outlook for the Canadian data center market
