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 | |||
| Digital Realty Trust | 2 | 330,000 | 52.75 | |||
| Colo-D | 3 | 225,000 | 55.00 | |||
| Cyxtera Technologies | 4 | 205,879 | 14.20 | |||
| ROOT Data Center | 2 | 201,000 | 25.00 | |||
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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 | ||
| ROOT Montreal MTL-R2 | 175,000 | 20.00 | ||
| Ascent Toronto TOR1 | 135,000 | 4.80 | ||
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Jul 25, 2018 | Cologix Vancouver VAN3
Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection, data center and cloud exchange company, announced today the development of its new VAN3 data center located at 2828 Natal Street, just a 20-minute drive from the heart of downtown Vancouver. VAN3 is expected to be completed in Q2 2019 and will deliver a...
Nov 21, 2016 | Equinix Toronto TR2
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and TORONTO, Ontario—September 29, 2016 — The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that the CSE has selected Equinix as its primary data center provider. The CSE will be o...
