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Acronis has announced the availability of its new Cyber Cloud data center in Toronto, Canada, adding to its global network, which includes a total of fifty locations, including the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and other regions. The company has outline...

ManageEngine has announced that it has opened two new Canadian data centers in Toronto and Montreal in order to offer Canadian customers, what it called, the benefits of localized data centers. This move is also reportedly in response to tightening privacy regulations across the world, with th...

New research shows that while an increasing number of companies are making ambitious and climate promises and claiming they’re powered by renewable energy, they’re often exaggerated as a result of an over-reliance on Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). RECs are received by paying into renewa...

The Norfolk County council building in Ontario, Canada, could be converted into a data center, it has been announced. The building recently sold for CA$725,000 (US$566,000) and spans 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sq ft) on under one acre. The announcement of the sale was originally made back in 2020, wi...

Eastlink has announced the opening of its new network data center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, following an investment of C$20 million (US$15.7m) and three years of construction. The facility spans 13,000 sqft (1,200 sqm). Speaking about the reason the company decided to build the new facility, Je...

Bitfury Group has announced the launch of a new crypto mining data center in Sarnia, Canada. The 28MW data center will begin operations with 16MW of capacity before the end of February. It will also add 12MW of capacity by the end of May. The company noted that the facility could be expanded t...

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel is to build a new facility in Vancouver's Harbour Centre. When fully built out, the company says the facility will span 43,000 sqft, with a capacity of 10MW, supporting 20kW+ per cabinet, and over 20,000 connected fibers. According to Director of Data Center ...

eStruxture has revealed its plans for a new data center facility in Calgary, Canada. The facility will be called CAL-2, and it will be located in Balzac, north of Alberta city. The facility will have 93,000 square feet of space with 30MW of capacity. eStruxture will also build the facility to ...

Just two years ago, Quebec had just 39 data centers; now, this number has shot up to 50. So, what’s driving this growth? Well, the Canadian city offers vast amounts of low-cost and green energy, generated mainly from hydro dams, which gives it the big green tick.Of course, while it’s no Virgin...

Today, the new owners of the former Atlantic Power Corp. power plant in North Bay, Ontario, Validus Power Corp and Hut 8 Mining, held a ground- breaking ceremony signalling the start of development on the site. The proposed 32,000-square-foot data center will see an injection of over $100 mill...

As part of Sophos ongoing expansion, it has moved into Montreal, Canada, meaning the company now has a presence in the U.S., Germany, and Ireland, as well as Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan. In a statement speaking about the rollout of these new data centers, the company said: "We're deligh...

Cologix is branching out in Canada. It has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zayo's 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sqm) interconnection facility in Vancouver. Cologix will add 4.2MW of capacity to the site.In addition to this, the company has also announced plans to ad...

Cologix is branching out in Canada. It has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zayo's 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sqm) interconnection facility in Vancouver. Cologix will add 4.2MW of capacity to the site.In addition to this, the company has also announced plans to ad...

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

Plans are in place for Google to acquire a property in Beauharnois, Quebec, and turn it into a data center. The proposed data center is estimated to cost $600 million.  The 62.4 hectares plot of land is owned by Hydro-Québec, and is currently zoned as agricultural land, the provincial governm...