Equinix Kamloops KA1

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Fully operational facility with prospective expansion planned

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Equinix Kamloops KA1

Year Built: 2011

Utility Provider: BC Hydro

Lot Size: 7 acres

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Site History

2009-04: Q9 Networks signs a long-term agreement with EDS/HP Advanced Solutions to build and operate a Kamloops data center serving the Province of British Columbia.
2011-04: Q9 Kamloops opens.
2016: Bell Canada takes full ownership of Q9.
2020-10: Equinix acquires the facility with Bell's data center portfolio and names it KA1.

Project Profile

Operator and owner: Equinix
Building: single-storey steel-frame building with about 45,400 square feet of colocation space on a 7.2-acre lot
Role: hosts the Province of British Columbia's Kamloops government data centre

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SOC 1 and SOC 2 type 2 audits
PCI DSS physical security
ISO 27001

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Equinix Kamloops KA1 Power Growth Over Time

+32% since 2022

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Sites within 15 miles of Equinix Kamloops KA1

Distance	Site	About
0.15 miles	Bell: Kamloops 2	Canadian telecoms operator Bell Canada is building an AI data center at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, British Columbia.
0.15 miles	Telus: Kamloops	TELUS operates an existing data center in Kamloops, British Columbia, that is now being expanded into part of its Canadian sovereign AI Factory network. The site is expected to support AI workloads alongside TELUS’ Rimouski and Vancouver facilities.
1.31 miles	Groq: Kamloops	Groq runs AI inference on its LPU servers in Bell AI Fabric's first Kamloops data centre, as the exclusive inference provider for Bell's sovereign AI network.
1.31 miles	Bell: Kamloops 1	The very first Bell Canada AI inference facility, operated by Groq, is a data center located in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
1.70 miles	Bell: Kamloops 3	Bell AI Fabric has proposed an AI data centre on the Kenna Village lands west of downtown Kamloops. The project remains conceptual.
2.55 miles	SilverServers: Kamloops	SilverServers owns and operates a small data centre, licensed as Canadian Shield Data Center, at 765 Lorne Street in downtown Kamloops.

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